All Publications

2017

A. C. Spokes and Spelke, E. S., “Four-year-old children favor kin when the stakes are higher”, Cognitive Development Society (CDS) . Portland, OR, 2017.
CBMM Funded
P. Tsividis, Pouncy, T., Xu, J. L., Tenenbaum, J. B., and Gershman, S. J., “Human Learning in Atari”, in AAAI Spring Symposium Series, 2017.PDF icon Tsividis et al - Human Learning in Atari.pdf (844.47 KB)
CBMM Funded
T. Ullman, Tenenbaum, J. B., and Spelke, E. S., “Critical Cues in Early Physical Reasoning”, SRCD. Austin, TX, 2017.
CBMM Funded
Y. Wu, Muentener, P., and Schulz, L., “One- to Four-year-olds’ Ability to Connect Diverse Positive Emotional Expressions to Their Probable Causes ”, Society for Research in Child Development. 2017.
CBMM Funded

2016

B. Katz and Barbu, A., “A look back at the June 2016 BMM Workshop in Sestri Levante, Italy”. 2016.PDF icon Sestri Levante Review (359.33 KB)
CBMM Funded
CBMM Memo No.
053
G. Dehaene-Lambertz and Spelke, E. S., “The infancy of the human brain”. 2016.PDF icon CBMM-Memo-053.pdf (1.51 MB)
CBMM Funded
H. L. Kosakowski, Powell, L. J., and Spelke, E. S., “Preverbal Infants' Third-Party Imitator Preferences: Animated Displays versus Filmed Actors”, International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS). New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016.PDF icon Preverbal Infants' Third-Party Imitator Preferences: Animated Displays versus Filmed Actors (45.21 MB)
CBMM Funded
S. Liu, Brooks, N. B., and Spelke, E. S., “Pre-reaching infants expect causal agents to act efficiently without motor training”, 20th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS). 2016.
CBMM Funded
A. C. Spokes, “How Infants Reason About Affective States and Social Interactions”, International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) . New Orleans, Louisiana , 2016.
CBMM Funded
A. C. Spokes and Spelke, E. S., “Early Reasoning about Affiliation and Social Networks”, in International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS), New Orleans, LA, 2016.
CBMM Funded
A. C. Spokes and Spelke, E. S., “The Functions of Infants’ Social Categorization: Early Reasoning about Affiliation and Social Networks”, in International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS), New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016.
CBMM Funded
T. Ullman, Tenenbaum, J. B., and Spelke, E. S., “Effort as a bridging concept across action and action understanding: Weight and Physical Effort in Predictions of Efficiency in Other Agents”, in International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) , New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016.
CBMM Funded
CBMM Memo No.
046
B. M. Lake, Ullman, T., Tenenbaum, J. B., and Gershman, S. J., “Building machines that learn and think like people”. 2016.PDF icon machines_that_think.pdf (3.45 MB)
CBMM Funded
T. Gerstenberg and Tenenbaum, J. B., “Intuitive theories”, in Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning, Oxford University Press, 2016.PDF icon Intuitive Theories (Gerstenberg, Tenenbaum, 2016.pdf (6.06 MB)
CBMM Funded
S. Liu and Spelke, E. S., “Continuous representations of action efficiency in infancy”, CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD16). 2016.
CBMM Funded
L. Bergen, Levy, R., and Goodman, N. D., “Pragmatic Reasoning through Semantic Inference”, Semantics and Pragmatics, vol. Vol 9 (2016) , 2016.PDF icon BergenLevyGoodman2015.pdf (1.12 MB)
CBMM Related
N. Bramley, Gerstenberg, T., and Tenenbaum, J. B., “Natural science: Active learning in dynamic physical microworlds”, 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016.PDF icon Natural Science (Bramley, Gerstenberg, Tenenbaum, 2016).pdf (5.39 MB)
CBMM Funded
M. R. Dillon and Spelke, E. S., “Young Children’s Use of Surface and Object Information in Drawings of Everyday Scenes”, Child Development, 2016.
CBMM Related
T. Gerstenberg and Tenenbaum, J. B., “Understanding "almost": Empirical and computational studies of near misses”, 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016.PDF icon Understanding almost (Gerstenberg, Tenenbaum, 2016).pdf (4.08 MB)
CBMM Funded
J. K. Hartshorne, “VerbCorner: Testing theories of argument structure through crowdsourcing”, Workshop on Events in Language. 2016.PDF icon VerbCorner_EventsInLanguage.pdf (1.14 MB)
CBMM Related
J. Jara-Ettinger, Gweon, H., Schulz, L., and Tenenbaum, J. B., “The naive utility calculus: computational principles underlying social cognition”, Trends Cogn Sci., 2016.
CBMM Funded
J. Jara-Ettinger, Piantadosi, S., Spelke, E. S., Levy, R., and Gibson, E., “Mastery of the logic of natural numbers is not the result of mastery of counting: Evidence from late counters. ”, Developmental Science, 2016.
CBMM Related
F. Peres, Smith, K. A., and Tenenbaum, J. B., “Rapid Physical Predictions from Convolutional Neural Networks”, Neural Information Processing Systems, Intuitive Physics Workshop. 2016.PDF icon Rapid Physical Predictions - NIPS Physics Workshop Poster (1.47 MB)
CBMM Related
E. S. Spelke, Barner, D., and Baron, A. S., “Core knowledge and conceptual change: A perspective on social cognition”, in Core Knowledge and Conceptual Change, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
CBMM Related
E. S. Spelke, Sternberg, R. J., Fiske, S. T., and Foss, D. J., “Cognitive abilities of infants”, in Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about Their Most Important Contributions, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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