Psychology
Psychology and the mind: behavior, cognition, emotions, mental health, and how people think.
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Elements of a theory of human problem solving psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 1958. [All Versions]. Herbert Simon's original idea on human problem solving.
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Leveraging Facial Expressions and Contextual Information to Investigate Opaque Representations of Emotion psycnet.apa.org
Emotion, 2019. [All Versions].
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Tool use and affordance: Manipulation-based versus reasoning-based approaches psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 2016. [All Versions]. A classic review on human tool use and affordance.
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Word learning as Bayesian inference psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 2007. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. The authors present a Bayesian framework for understanding how adults and children learn the meanings of words. The theory explains how learners can generalize meaningfully from just one or a few positive examples of a…
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Predictive and Diagnostic Learning Within Causal Models: Asymmetries in Cue Competition psych.uni-goettingen.de
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1992. [All Versions]. Experimental evidences for distincting causality and association.
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Partial Mental Simulation Explains Fallacies in Physical Reasoning psyarxiv.com
Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2022. [All Versions].
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Bayesian modeling of human concept learning proceedings.neurips.cc
NeurIPS'98, 1998. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This work considers the problem of learning concepts from small numbers of positive examples, a feat which humans perform routinely but which computers are rarely capable of. Bridging machine learning and cognitive science…
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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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