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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)

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)

Origins of the concepts cause, cost, and goal in prereaching infants. Cognitive Development Society (2019).
liu_etal_lumi_cds2019_final.pdf (22.95 MB)

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)

The fine structure of surprise in intuitive physics: when, why, and how much?. Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020, virtual, July 29 - August 1, 2020 ( ) (2020). at <https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2020/papers/0761/index.html>
Infants represent 'like-kin' affiliation . Budapest Conference on Cognitive Development (2020).
Learning from multiple informants: Children’s response to epistemic bases for consensus judgments. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 192, 104759 (2020).
Online Developmental Science to Foster Innovation, Access, and Impact. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24, 675 - 678 (2020).
AGENT: A Benchmark for Core Psychological Reasoning. Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (2021).
Dangerous Ground: One-Year-Old Infants are Sensitive to Peril in Other Agents’ Action PlansAbstract. Open Mind 6, 211 - 231 (2022).
Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships. Science 375, 311 - 315 (2022).
Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, (2022).
pnas.2121390119.pdf (1.43 MB)

Using machine learning to understand age and gender classification based on infant temperament. PLOS ONE 17, e0266026 (2022).
What Babies KnowAbstractCore KnowledgeAbstract. 190 - C5.T1 (Oxford University PressNew York, 2022). doi:10.1093/oso/9780190618247.001.000110.1093/oso/9780190618247.003.0005
Infants and toddlers leverage their understanding of action goals to evaluate agents who help others. Child Development (2023). doi:10.1111/cdev.13895