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Bonawitz, E., Denison, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Gopnik, A. (2014). Probabilistic models, learning algorithms, and response variability: Sampling in cognitive development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18, 497-500. (pdf)
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Bonawitz, E., Denison, S., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). Win-stay, lose-sample,: A simple sequential algorithm for approximating Bayesian inference. Cognitive Psychology, 74, 35-65. (pdf)
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Denison, S., Bonawitz, E., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2013). Rational variability in children's causal inferences: The Sampling Hypothesis. Cognition, 126, 285-300. (pdf)
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Bonawitz, E., Gopnik, A., Denison, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). Rational randomness: The role of sampling in an algorithmic account of preschoolers' causal learning. In F. Xu (Ed.) Rational constructivism in cognitive development. Waltham, MA: Academic Press. (book)
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Bonawitz, E., Denison, S., Chen, A., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). A simple sequential algorithm for approximating Bayesian inference. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Bonawitz, E. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Deconfounding hypothesis generation and evaluation in Bayesian models. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Denison, S., Bonawitz, E. B., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Preschoolers sample from probability distributions. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Schulz, L. E., Bonawitz, E. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). Can being scared make your tummy ache? Naive theories, ambiguous evidence and preschoolers' causal inferences. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1124-1139. (pdf)
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Bonawitz, E. B., Griffiths, T. L., & Schulz, L. (2006). Modeling cross-domain causal learning in preschoolers as Bayesian inference. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf) (winner of the Marr Prize for best student paper)

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