Psychology
Psychology and the mind: behavior, cognition, emotions, mental health, and how people think.
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Machine theory of mind proceedings.mlr.press
ICML'18, 2018. [All Versions]. Theory of mind (ToM) broadly refers to humans’ ability to represent the mental states of others, including their desires, beliefs, and intentions. This work proposes a Theory of Mind neural network --- a ToMnet --- which uses meta-learning to…
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AGENT: A Benchmark for Core Psychological Reasoning proceedings.mlr.press
ICML'21, 2021. [All Versions]. Inspired by cognitive development studies on intuitive psychology, this paper presents a benchmark consisting of a large dataset of procedurally generated 3D animations, AGENT (Action, Goal, Efficiency, coNstraint, uTility), structured around four…
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Scaling up psychology via Scientific Regret Minimization pnas.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020. [All Versions]. The statistical and ecological basis for scaling up behavioral studies.
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Modal Logic plato.stanford.edu
Plato Stanford. A computational philosophy account on Modal Logic, which is the study of the deductive behavior of the expressions 'it is necessary that' and 'it is possible that'.
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Embodied Cognition plato.stanford.edu
Plato Stanford. A computational philosophy account on Embodied Cognition, which emphasizes the significance of an agent's physical body in cognitive abilities.
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Externalism About the Mind plato.stanford.edu
Plato Stanford. A computational philosophy account on mind externalism, a long-term debate about the boundary of embodied intelligence.
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Bounded Rationality plato.stanford.edu
Plato Stanford. A computational philosophy account on Bounded Rationality, an elementary hypothesis of human intelligence in psychology and ecology.
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The Perception of Relations perception.jhu.edu
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021. [All Versions]. Chaz Firestone's review on the perception of relation, in constrast to the conventional reasoning view.
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Seeing and speaking: How verbal “description length” encodes visual complexity perception.jhu.edu
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2022. [All Versions]. [APA]. Empirical evidencs showing the relation between visual complexity and description length.
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Similarity involving attributes and relations: Judgments of similarity and difference are not inverses pcl.sitehost.iu.edu
Psychological Science, 1990. [All Versions].
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Causal Reasoning oxfordhandbooks.com
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology, 2013. [All Versions].
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Scaling up experimental social, behavioral, and economic science osf.io
Open Science Foundation Preprints. [All Versions]. A white paper on scaling up social, behavioral, and econimic experiments.
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Computational Models of Emotion Inference in Theory of Mind: A Review and Roadmap onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2019. [All Versions]. This paper proposes an intuitive theory framework to studying affective cognition—how humans reason about emotions—and derive a taxonomy of inferences within affective cognition. Using this taxonomy, the authors review formal…
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Rational Use of Cognitive Resources: Levels of Analysis Between the Computational and the Algorithmic onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2015. [All Versions]. An earlier version of the paper above.
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Computational Rationality: Linking Mechanism and Behavior Through Bounded Utility Maximization onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2014. [All Versions]. Introducing the computational rationality framework for including information-processing bounds in rational analyses, which emphasizes the incorporation of computational mechanism into the definition of rational action.
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The AHA! Experience: Creativity Through Emergent Binding in Neural Networks onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 2012. [All Versions].
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Graphical Language Games: Interactional Constraints on Representational Form onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 2007. [All Versions]. The first paper introducing the graphical language game.
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What Is the Model in Model-Based Planning? onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 2021. [All Versions].
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The Interactive Evolution of Human Communication Systems onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 2010. [All Versions]. Nicolas Fay's original paper on iconicity.
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Inferring causal networks from observations and interventions onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 2010. [All Versions].
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Use of current explanations in multicausal abductive reasoning onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 2001. [All Versions].
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Representations in distributed cognitive tasks onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 1994. [All Versions].
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Dual Space Search During Scientific Reasoning onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 1988. [All Versions]. The original paper on the dual space search as scientific thinking theory.
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Restructuring revisited II. An information processing theory of restructuring and insight onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 1984. [All Versions].
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Restructuring revisited I. Summary and critique of the Gestalt theory of problem solving onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 1984. [All Versions].
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The importance of mixed selectivity in complex cognitive tasks oar.princeton.edu
Nature, 2013. [All Versions]. The original paper introducing mixed selectivity with high-dimensional neural representations.
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Goals as reward-producing programs nature.com
Nature Human Behavior, 2025. [All Versions]. [Project]. People are remarkably capable of generating their own goals, beginning with child’s play and continuing into adulthood. Despite considerable empirical and computational work on goals and goal-oriented behaviour, models are…
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Meta-analysis of the functional neuroimaging literature with probabilistic logic programming nature.com
Scientific Reports, 2022. [All Versions]. Inferring reliable brain-behavior associations requires synthesizing evidence from thousands of functional neuroimaging studies through meta-analysis. However, existing meta-analysis tools are limited to investigating simple…
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Nature Medicine, 2019. [All Versions]. The microscopic assessment of tissue samples is instrumental for the diagnosis and staging of cancer, and thus guides therapy. However, these assessments demonstrate considerable variability and many regions of the world lack access to…
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How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon nature.com
Nature Human Behavior, 2025. [All Versions]. Individuals rely on others’ expertise to achieve a basic understanding of the world. But how can non-experts achieve understanding from explanations that, by definition, they are ill-equipped to assess? Across 9 experiments with…
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Building machines that learn and think with people nature.com
Nature Human Behavior, 2024. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This perspective shows how the science of collaborative cognition can be put to work to engineer systems that really can be called ‘thought partners’, systems built to meet humans' expectations and complement humans…
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Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology nature.com
Nature Human Behavior, 2022. [All Versions]. A machine-learning dataset designed to evaluate conceptual understanding of intuitive physics, adopting the violation-of-expectation (VoE) paradigm from developmental psychology; a deep-learning system that learns intuitive physics…
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Semantic projection recovers rich human knowledge of multiple object features from word embeddings nature.com
Nature Human Behavior, 2022. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. How is knowledge about word meaning represented in the mental lexicon? Current computational models infer word meanings from lexical co-occurrence patterns. They learn to represent words as vectors in a multidimensional…
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Rational arbitration between statistics and rules in human sequence processing nature.com
Nature Human Behavior, 2022. [All Versions].
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How young children integrate information sources to infer the meaning of words nature.com
Nature Human Behavior, 2021. [All Versions]. Before formal education begins, children typically acquire a vocabulary of thousands of words. This learning process requires the use of many different information sources in their social environment, including their current state of…
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Rational quantitative attribution of beliefs, desires and percepts in human mentalizing nature.com
Nature Human Behavior, 2017. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This paper presents a model of core mentalizing computations: inferring jointly an actor’s beliefs, desires and percepts from how they move in the local spatial environment. The proposed Bayesian theory of mind (BToM)…
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A manifesto for reproducible science nature.com
Nature Human Behavior, 2017. [All Versions].
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Virtual reality in behavioral neuroscience and beyond nature.com
Nature Neuroscience, 2002. [All Versions]. A classic review on the early applications of Virtual Reality to behavioral studies.
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Waiting and weighting: Information sampling is a balance between efficiency and error-reduction linkinghub.elsevier.com
Cognition, 2013. [All Versions].
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People Infer Recursive Visual Concepts from Just a Few Examples link.springer.com
Computational Brain & Behavior, 2020. [All Versions].
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Towards an Architecture for Cognitive Vision Using Qualitative Spatio-temporal Representations and Abduction link.springer.com
Spatial Cognition, 2002. [All Versions].
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Abductive Cognition: The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning link.springer.com
Springer, 2009. [All Versions]. Most philosophers of science in the twentieth century have concluded that no logic of creative processes exists and, moreover, that a rational model of discovery is impossible. In short, scientific creative inferences are irrational and there is…
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A computational process-tracing method for measuring people’s planning strategies and how they change over time link.springer.com
Behavior Research Methods, 2022. [All Versions]. Model-based strategy identification.
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When to trust the data: Further investigations of system error in a scientific reasoning task link.springer.com
Memory & Cognition, 1996. [All Versions]. When evaluating experimental evidence, how do people deal with the possibility that some of the feedback is erroneous? The potential for error means that evidence evaluation must include decisions about when to “trust the data.” This…
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How do people generalize causal relations over objects? A non-parametric Bayesian account link.springer.com
Computational Brain & Behavior, 2022. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. How do people decide how general a causal relationship is, in terms of the entities or situations it applies to? What features do people use to decide whether a new situation is governed by a new causal law or an…
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Pragmatic Inference and Visual Abstraction Enable Contextual Flexibility During Visual Communication link.springer.com
Computational Brain & Behavior, 2020. [All Versions]. A computational account on the rational behavior in graphical language games.
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Do People Ask Good Questions? link.springer.com
Computational Brain & Behavior, 2018. [All Versions].
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Gestalt Psychology link.springer.com
Psychologische Forschung, 1967. [All Versions]. Wolfgang Köhler's review on Gestalt psychology.
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Words, thoughts, and theories library.lol
MIT Press, 1997. [All Versions]. Alison Gopnik's book that articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development, the idea that infants and young children, like scientists, learn about the world by forming and revising theories-a view of the origins…
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Two lines: A valid alternative to the invalid testing of U-shaped relationships with quadratic regressions journals.sagepub.com
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2018. [All Versions]. An alternative method to test the statistical significance of U-shaped relationships.
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