Publication
Modeling brain dynamics using mathematics from quantum mechanics. Peter Chin's Lab, Boston University Boston University, (2017).
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)
Infants represent 'like-kin' affiliation . Budapest Conference on Cognitive Development (2020).
Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships. Science 375, 311 - 315 (2022).
Learning abstract structure for drawing by efficient motor program induction. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2020) (2020). at <https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2020/hash/1c104b9c0accfca52ef21728eaf01453-Abstract.html>
What if Eye..? Computationally Recreating Vision Evolution. arXiv (2025). at <https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15001>
2501.15001v1.pdf (5.2 MB)
Multi-task reinforcement learning in humans. Nature Human Behaviour (2021). doi:10.1038/s41562-020-01035-y
Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger. Nature Neuroscience 23, 1597 - 1605 (2020).
s41593-020-00742-z.pdf (5.47 MB)
Differentiable physics and stable modes for tool-use and manipulation planning. Robotics: Science and Systems 2018 (2018).
ToussaintEtAl_DiffPhysStable.pdf (1.97 MB)
Investigating audition with a generative model of impact sounds. Annual Meeting of Acoustical Society of America (2017).
Statistics of natural reverberation enable perceptual separation of sound and space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, E7856 - E7865 (2016).
A library of real-world reverberation and a toolbox for its analysis and measurement. Annual Meeting of Acoustical Society of America (2017).
Auditory Perception of Material and Force from Impact Sounds. Annual Meeting of Association for Research in Otolaryngology (2017).
Causal inference in environmental sound recognition. Cognition (2021). doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104627
Human recognition of environmental sounds is not always robust to reverberation. Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society 143, (2018).
Environmental statistics enable perceptual separation of sound and space. Speech and Audio in the Northeast (2016).
Human inference of force from impact sounds: Perceptual evidence for inverse physics. Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society 143, (2018).
A perceptually inspired generative model of rigid-body contact sounds. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-19) (2019).
Human Learning in Atari. AAAI Spring Symposium Series (2017).
Tsividis et al - Human Learning in Atari.pdf (844.47 KB)
Hypothesis-Space Constraints in Causal Learning. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) (2015). at <https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2015/papers/0418/index.html>
hypothesis_space_constraints (1).pdf (1.54 MB)
Information Selection in Noisy Environments with Large Action Spaces. 9th Biennial Conference of the Cognitive Development Society Columbus, OH, (2015).
Many but not all deep neural network audio models capture brain responses and exhibit correspondence between model stages and brain regions. PLOS Biology 21, e3002366 (2023).
AI Feynman 2.0: Pareto-optimal symbolic regression exploiting graph modularity. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2020) (2020).
2006.10782.pdf (2.62 MB)
Effort as a bridging concept across action and action understanding: Weight and Physical Effort in Predictions of Efficiency in Other Agents. International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) (2016).
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