Publication
Image interpretation by iterative bottom-up top- down processing. (2021).
CBMM-Memo-120.pdf (2.83 MB)
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)
Bayesian Models of Conceptual Development: Learning as Building Models of the World. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology 2, 533 - 558 (2020).
Atoms of recognition in human and computer vision. PNAS 113, 2744–2749 (2016).
mirc_author_manuscript_with_figures_and_SI-2.pdf (1.65 MB)
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)
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).
Information Selection in Noisy Environments with Large Action Spaces. 9th Biennial Conference of the Cognitive Development Society Columbus, OH, (2015).
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)
Environmental statistics enable perceptual separation of sound and space. Speech and Audio in the Northeast (2016).
A perceptually inspired generative model of rigid-body contact sounds. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-19) (2019).
Human recognition of environmental sounds is not always robust to reverberation. Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society 143, (2018).
Investigating audition with a generative model of impact sounds. Annual Meeting of Acoustical Society of America (2017).
Human inference of force from impact sounds: Perceptual evidence for inverse physics. Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society 143, (2018).
Statistics of natural reverberation enable perceptual separation of sound and space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, E7856 - E7865 (2016).
Causal inference in environmental sound recognition. Cognition (2021). doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104627
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).
Differentiable physics and stable modes for tool-use and manipulation planning. Robotics: Science and Systems 2018 (2018).
ToussaintEtAl_DiffPhysStable.pdf (1.97 MB)
Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger. Nature Neuroscience 23, 1597 - 1605 (2020).
s41593-020-00742-z.pdf (5.47 MB)
Multi-task reinforcement learning in humans. Nature Human Behaviour (2021). doi:10.1038/s41562-020-01035-y
What if Eye..? Computationally Recreating Vision Evolution. arXiv (2025). at <https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15001>
2501.15001v1.pdf (5.2 MB)
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>
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