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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Reply to Vankov et al.: Reasoning traces are linked to accuracy and capture key dimensions of problem complexity.

Andrea Gregor de Varda, Ferdinando Pio D'Elia, Hope Kean, Andrew Lampinen, Evelina Fedorenko

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Reply to Hu: Reasoning traces need not be faithful to account for the cost of human thinking.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Reply to Vankov et al.: Reasoning traces are linked to accuracy and capture key dimensions of problem complexity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Andrea Gregor de VardaDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-0187-5816
Ferdinando Pio D'EliaCenter for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1165, Denmark.ORCID 0009-0004-4044-0163
Hope KeanDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0003-3684-8225
Andrew LampinenGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, CA 94043.ORCID 0000-0002-6988-8437
Evelina FedorenkoDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0003-3823-514X

Funding

DOD | ARPA | Defense Sciences Office, DARPA (DSO) HR00112520025
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID41838916
PMCPMC13011927

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Registered trials

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