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Young Children’s Use of Surface and Object Information in Drawings of Everyday Scenes. Child Development (2016). doi:10.1111/cdev.12658
Ten-month-old infants infer the value of goals from the costs of actions. Science 358, 1038-1041 (2017).
ivc_full_preprint_withsm.pdf (1.6 MB)
Six-month-old infants expect agents to minimize the cost of their actions. Cognition 160, 35-42 (2017).
Origins of the concepts cause, cost, and goal in prereaching infants. PNAS (2019). doi:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904410116
Author's last draft (2.58 MB)
Online Developmental Science to Foster Innovation, Access, and Impact. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24, 675 - 678 (2020).
Mind Games: Game Engines as an Architecture for Intuitive Physics. Trends in Cognitive Science 21, 649 - 665 (2017).
Preprint submitted to Trends in Cognitive Science (17.64 MB)
Mastery of the logic of natural numbers is not the result of mastery of counting: Evidence from late counters. . Developmental Science (2016). doi:10.1111/desc.12459
Learning from multiple informants: Children’s response to epistemic bases for consensus judgments. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 192, 104759 (2020).
Language, gesture, and judgment: Children’s paths to abstract geometry. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 177, 70 - 85 (2019).
From Map Reading to Geometric Intuitions. Developmental Psychology (2018). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000509
Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships. Science 375, 311 - 315 (2022).
The cradle of social knowledge: Infants' reasoning about caregiving and affiliation. Cognition 159, 102-116 (2017).
Core geometry in perspective. Developmental Science (2014). doi:10.1111/desc.12266
Core foundations of abstract geometry. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110, (2013).
Children's expectations about training the approximate number system. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 33, (2015).
Children’s Expectations and Understanding of Kinship as a Social Category. Frontiers in Psychology 7, 1664-1078 (2016).
At 4.5 but not 5.5 years, children favor kin when the stakes are moderately high. PLOS ONE 13, (2018).
The ability to predict actions of others from distributed cues is still developing in children. PsyArXiv Preprints (2020). doi:10.31234/osf.io/pu3tf
Action_prediction_in_children.pdf (427.84 KB)
Modeling Expectation Violation in Intuitive Physics with Coarse Probabilistic Object Representations. 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019) (2019). at <http: //physadept.csail.mit.edu/>
ADEPT_NeurIPS.pdf (11.07 MB)
Four-year-old children favor kin when the stakes are higher. Cognitive Development Society (CDS) (2017). at <https://cogdevsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/CDS2017AbstractBook.pdf>