All Publications
2023
“Emotion prediction as computation over a generative theory of mind”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 381, no. 2251, 2023. ,
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“Using artificial neural networks to ask ‘why’ questions of minds and brains”, Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 240 - 254, 2023. ,
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“Preliminary evidence for selective cortical responses to music in one‐month‐old infants”, Developmental Science, 2023.
Developmental Science - 2023 - Kosakowski - Preliminary evidence for selective cortical responses to music in one‐month‐old.pdf (2.6 MB) ,

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“CNNs reveal the computational implausibility of the expertise hypothesis”, iScience, vol. 26, no. 2, p. 105976, 2023. ,
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“Infants and toddlers leverage their understanding of action goals to evaluate agents who help others”, Child Development, 2023. ,
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“NOPA: Neurally-guided Online Probabilistic Assistance for Building Socially Intelligent Home Assistants”, arXiv, 2023. ,
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2022
“A highly selective response to food in human visual cortex revealed by hypothesis-free voxel decomposition”, Current Biology, vol. 32, no. 19, pp. 4159 - 4171.e9, 2022. ,
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“Dangerous Ground: One-Year-Old Infants are Sensitive to Peril in Other Agents’ Action PlansAbstract”, Open Mind, vol. 6, pp. 211 - 231, 2022. ,
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“Synthesizing theories of human language with Bayesian program inductionAbstract”, Nature Communications, vol. 13, no. 1, 2022.
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“Visual foundations of Euclidean geometry”, Cognitive Psychology, vol. 136, p. 101494, 2022. ,
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What Babies KnowAbstractCore KnowledgeAbstract, 1st ed. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022, pp. 190 - C5.T1. ,
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“Toddlers’ social evaluations of agents who act on false beliefs”, Developmental Science, vol. 26, no. 2, 2022. ,
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“Reasoning about the antecedents of emotions: Bayesian causal inference over an intuitive theory of mind”, Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, vol. 44. Toronto, CA, pp. 854-861, 2022.
Houlihan 2022 Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.pdf (687.98 KB) ,

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“What Could Go Wrong: Adults and Children Calibrate Predictions and Explanations of Others' Actions Based on Relative Reward and Danger”, Cognitive Science, vol. 46, no. 7, 2022. ,
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“Invariant representation of physical stability in the human brain”, eLife, vol. 11, 2022. ,
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“Incorporating Rich Social Interactions Into MDPs”, in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2022. ,
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“Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119, no. 32, 2022.
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“Using machine learning to understand age and gender classification based on infant temperament”, PLOS ONE, vol. 17, no. 4, p. e0266026, 2022. ,
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“Using child‐friendly movie stimuli to study the development of face, place, and object regions from age 3 to 12 years”, Human Brain Mapping, 2022. ,
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“An approximate representation of objects underlies physical reasoning”, psyArXiv, 2022. ,
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“A neural population selective for song in human auditory cortex”, Current Biology, 2022.
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“Mental Jenga: A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments about physical support”, PsyArXiv, 2022. ,
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“Deep neural network models of sound localization reveal how perception is adapted to real-world environments”, Nature Human Behavior, vol. 6, pp. 111–133 , 2022.
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“Harmonicity aids hearing in noise”, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2022. ,
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“Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships”, Science, vol. 375, no. 6578, pp. 311 - 315, 2022. ,
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