Publication
The Functions of Infants’ Social Categorization: Early Reasoning about Affiliation and Social Networks. International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) (2016).
How Infants Reason About Affective States and Social Interactions. International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) (2016).
The infancy of the human brain. (2016). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.026
CBMM-Memo-053.pdf (1.51 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
Pre-reaching infants expect causal agents to act efficiently without motor training. 20th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) (2016).
Preverbal Infants' Third-Party Imitator Preferences: Animated Displays versus Filmed Actors. International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) (2016).
Preverbal Infants' Third-Party Imitator Preferences: Animated Displays versus Filmed Actors (45.21 MB)

Young Children’s Use of Surface and Object Information in Drawings of Everyday Scenes. Child Development (2016). doi:10.1111/cdev.12658
The cradle of social knowledge: Infants' reasoning about caregiving and affiliation. Cognition 159, 102-116 (2017).
Critical Cues in Early Physical Reasoning. SRCD (2017).
Five-month-old infants attend to responsive caregivers. Cognitive Development Society (CDS) (2017). at <https://cogdevsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/CDS2017AbstractBook.pdf>
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>
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)

Six-month-old infants expect agents to minimize the cost of their actions. Cognition 160, 35-42 (2017).
Spatial cognition across development. SRCD (2017).
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)

Ten-month-old infants infer value from effort. Society for Research in Child Development (2017).
Ten-month-old infants infer value from effort. SRCD (2017).
At 4.5 but not 5.5 years, children favor kin when the stakes are moderately high. PLOS ONE 13, (2018).
From Map Reading to Geometric Intuitions. Developmental Psychology (2018). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000509
Draping an Elephant: Uncovering Children's Reasoning About Cloth-Covered Objects. Cognitive Science Society (2019). at <https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2019/papers/0506/index.html>
Draping an Elephant: Uncovering Children's Reasoning About Cloth-Covered Objects.pdf (2.62 MB)

Hard choices: Children’s understanding of the cost of action selection. . Cognitive Science Society (2019).
phk_cogsci_2019_final.pdf (276.14 KB)

Language, gesture, and judgment: Children’s paths to abstract geometry. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 177, 70 - 85 (2019).