Psychology
Psychology and the mind: behavior, cognition, emotions, mental health, and how people think.
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The Naïve Utility Calculus as a unified, quantitative framework for action understanding sciencedirect.com
Cognitive Psychology, 2021. [All Versions]. [Project]. This paper presents a formal theory of the Naïve Utility Calculus as a probabilistic generative model, which highlights the role of cost and reward tradeoffs in a Bayesian framework for action-understanding. The model…
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Where do hypotheses come from? sciencedirect.com
Cognitive Psychology, 2017. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. Why are human inferences sometimes remarkably close to the Bayesian ideal and other times systematically biased? In particular, why do humans make near-rational inferences in some natural domains where the candidate…
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Locating what comes to mind in empirically derived representational spaces sciencedirect.com
Cognition, 2023. [All Versions]. An evidence-based study concluding that people call category members to mind according to their location in representational space, specifically based on the predicted usefulness of considering category members with particular features.
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Show or tell? Exploring when (and why) teaching with language outperforms demonstration sciencedirect.com
Cognition, 2023. [All Versions]. The findings of this paper suggest that language communicates complex concepts by directly transmitting abstract rules. In contrast, demonstrations transmit examples, requiring the learner to infer the rules.
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Basic functional trade-offs in cognition: An integrative framework sciencedirect.com
Cognition, 2018. [All Versions].
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The Role of Explanatory Considerations in Updating sciencedirect.com
Cognition, 2015. [All Versions]. This paper investigates experimentally controversy in philosophy about the connection between explanation and inference, of whether judgments of the explanatory goodness of hypotheses do play a role when people revise their degrees of belief in…
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Action Understanding as Inverse Planning sciencedirect.com
Cognition, 2009. [All Versions]. [Appendix]. The original paper on Inverse Planning, a computational implementation of Theory of Mind. Humans are adept at inferring the mental states underlying other agents’ actions, such as goals, beliefs, desires, emotions and other thoughts…
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Imagination and the generation of new ideas sciencedirect.com
Cognitive Development, 2015. [All Versions]. A variety of theories have been put forth to explain the function of imagination, most notably that imagination engages and develops children's theory of mind and counterfactual reasoning. This work proposes that a primary role for…
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The nature of external representations in problem solving sciencedirect.com
Cognitive Science, 1997. [All Versions].
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Heuristics for Scientific Experimentation: A Developmental Study sciencedirect.com
Cognitive Psychology, 1993. [All Versions]. A piece of evidence on children have basic scientific thinking skills.
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Learning physical parameters from dynamic scenes sciencedirect.com
Cognitive Psychology, 2017. [All Versions].
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Remembrance of inferences past: Amortization in human hypothesis generation sciencedirect.com
Cognition, 2018. [All Versions]. A rational account of human hypothesis generation.
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Qualitative Simulation sciencedirect.com
Artificial Intelligence, 1986. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This paper presents a precise definition of qualitative structure and behavior descriptions as abstractions of differential equations and continuously differentiable functions. The authors present a new algorithm for…
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Commonsense reasoning about causality: Deriving behavior from structure sciencedirect.com
Artificial Intelligence, 1984. [All Versions].
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Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking science.org
Science, 2018. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. The hippocampal formation has long been suggested to underlie both memory formation and spatial navigation. This work discusses how neural mechanisms identified in spatial navigation research operate across information domains to…
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How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction science.org
Science, 2011. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This review describes recent approaches to reverse-engineering human learning and cognitive development and, in parallel, engineering more humanlike machine learning systems. Computational models that perform probabilistic inference…
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Beyond imitation: Zero-shot task transfer on robots by learning concepts as cognitive programs science.org
Science Robotics, 2019. [All Versions]. Humans can infer concepts from image pairs and apply those in the physical world in a completely different setting, enabling tasks like IKEA assembly from diagrams. If robots could represent and infer high-level concepts, then it would…
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A tale of two explanations: Enhancing human trust by explaining robot behavior science.org
Science Robotics, 2019. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. The ability to provide comprehensive explanations of chosen actions is a hallmark of intelligence. Lack of this ability impedes the general acceptance of AI and robot systems in critical tasks. This paper examines what forms…
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Explanatory Preferences Shape Learning and Inference scholar.princeton.edu
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2016. [All Versions]. People often learn by seeking explanations, and they assess the viability of hypotheses by considering how well they explain the data. An emerging body of work reveals that both children and adults have strong and systematic…
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The weirdest people in the world? scholar.harvard.edu
Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 2010. [All Versions]. The original paper on rethinking and tackling the sample bias in behaivoral studies, where most subjects are drawn from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies.
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Multiple Causes of Difficulty in Insight: The Case of the Nine-Dot Problem researchgate.net
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2004. [All Versions]. [APA].
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What Makes an Insight Problem? The Roles of Heuristics, Goal Conception, and Solution Recoding in Knowledge-Lean… researchgate.net
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2004. [All Versions]. [APA].
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Investigating the effect of Mental Set on Insight Problem Solving researchgate.net
Experimental Psychology, 2008. [All Versions].
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Visual complexity: a review researchgate.net
Psychological Bulletin, 2006. [All Versions]. [APA]. A psychological account on visual complexity.
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Cognitive engineering: Human problem solving with tools researchgate.net
Human Factors, 1988. [All Versions]. The original idea of investigating huamn tool use in problem solving.
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12- and 18-Month-Olds Point to Provide Information for Others pure.mpg.de
Journal of Cognition and Development, 2009. [All Versions].
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How variability shapes learning and generalization pure.mpg.de
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022. [All Versions]. A comprehensive review on the trade-off between variability and generalization ability.
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The psychology of virtual reality psycnet.apa.org
The psychology of technology: Social science research in the age of Big Data (pp. 155–193), American Psychological Association, 2022. [All Versions]. Jeremy Bailenson's review on the applications of Virtual Reality to behavioral studies.
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A theory of relation learning and cross-domain generalization psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 2022. [All Versions]. A comprehensive review on the perspective of treating analogy as cross-domain generalization.
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Unit of visual working memory: A Boolean map provides a better account than an object does psycnet.apa.org
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2020. [All Versions].
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The language of generalization psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 2019. [All Versions].
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Best, second-best, and good-enough explanations: How they matter to reasoning psycnet.apa.org
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2018. [All Versions]. There is a wealth of evidence that people’s reasoning is influenced by explanatory considerations. Three experiments investigate the descriptive adequacy of a precise proposal to be found in the philosophical literature…
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Reconstructing constructivism: Causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms, and the theory theory psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Bulletin, 2012. [All Versions]. Alison Gopnik's review on the constructivism idea of developmental research, including the theory theory of concepts.
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Hypothesis generation, sparse categories, and the positive test strategy psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 2011. [All Versions].
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Gestalt theory psycnet.apa.org
A source book of Gestalt psychology, 1938. [All Versions]. The original book on Gestalt psychology.
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Exploring science: The cognition and development of discovery processes psycnet.apa.org
MIT Press, 2000. [All Versions]. In this book, D. Klahr sets out to describe the cognitive and developmental processes that have enabled scientists to make the discoveries that comprise the body of information we call "scientific knowledge." Over the past decade, Klahr and his…
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The Theory Theory psycnet.apa.org
Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture, Cambridge University Press, 1994. [All Versions]. Alison Gopnik's original paper on the theory theory.
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Tools, language and cognition in human evolution psycnet.apa.org
Cambridge University Press, 1993. [All Versions]. A classic perspective correlating human tool use with the evolution of civilization.
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Thoughts beyond words: When language overshadows insight psycnet.apa.org
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1993. [All Versions].
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Children and adults as intuitive scientists psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 1989. [All Versions]. A perspective against search as scientific thinking.
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Confirmation, disconfirmation, and information in hypothesis testing psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 1987. [All Versions]. A psychological account on hypothesis testing.
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Complexity and the representation of patterned sequences of symbols psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 1972. [All Versions]. Herbert Simon's review on subjective complexity.
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Elimination by aspects: A theory of choice psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 1972. [All Versions]. Herbert Simon's early experiments on computer aided behavioral studies.
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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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