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Dubey, R., Hardy, M., Griffiths, T., & Bhui, R. (in press). AI-generated visuals of car-free American cities help increase support for sustainable transport policies. Nature Sustainability. (preprint)
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Allen, K. R., Brändle, F., Botvinick, M., Fan, J., Gershman, S. J., Griffiths, T. L., Hartshorne, J., Hauser, T. U., Ho, M. K., de Leeuw, J., Ma, W. J., Murayama, K., Nelson, J. D., van Opheusden, B., Pouncy, H. T., Rafner, J., Rahwan, I., Rutledge, R., Sherson, J., Simsek, O., Spiers, H., Summerfield, C., Thalmann, M., Vélez, N., Watrous, A., Tenenbaum, J., & Schulz, E. (2023). Using games to understand the mind. (preprint)
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Brinkmann, L., Baumann, F., Bonnefon, J., Derex, M., Müller, T. F., Nussberger, A., Czaplicka, A., Acerbi, A., Griffiths, T. L., Henrich, J., Leibo, J. Z., McElreath, R., Oudeyer, P., Stray, J., & Rahwan, I. (2023). Machine culture. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(11), 1855-1868.(pdf)
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Callaway, F., Hardy, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Optimal nudging for cognitively bounded agents: A framework for modeling, predicting, and controlling the effects of choice architectures. Psychological Review. (preprint)
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Correa, C. G., Ho, M. K., Callaway, F., Daw, N. D., Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Humans decompose tasks by trading off utility and computational cost. PLOS Computational Biology, 19(6), e1011087. (pdf)
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Correa, C. G., Sanborn, S., Ho, M. K., Callaway, F., Daw, N. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Exploring the hierarchical structure of human plans via program generation. (preprint)
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Hardy, M. D., Thompson, B., Krafft, P. M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks. Nature Human Behavior, 7, 2084-2098. (pdf)
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Hawkins, R. D., Franke, M., Frank, M. C., Goldberg, A. E., Smith, K., Griffiths, T. L., & Goodman, N. D. (2023). From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention. Psychological Review. (pdf)
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He, R., Correa, C. G., Griffiths, T. L., & Ho, M. K. (2023). Structurally guided task decomposition in spatial navigation tasks (Student Abstract). Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 38. (pdf)
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Ho, M. K., Cohen, J. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Rational simplification and rigidity in human planning. Psychological Science, 34(11), 1281-1292. (pdf)
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Jain, Y. R., Callaway, F., Griffiths, T. L., Dayan, P., He, R., Krueger, P. M., & Lieder, F. (2023). A computational process-tracing method for measuring people’s planning strategies and how they change over time. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 2037–2079. (pdf)
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Liu, R., Yen, H., Marjieh, R., Griffiths, T. L., & Krishna, R. (2023). Improving interpersonal communication by simulating audiences with language models. (preprint)
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Lu, Q., Nguyen, T. T., Hasson, U., Griffiths, T. L., Zacks, J. M., Gershman, S. J., & Norman, K. A. (2023). Toward a more neurally plausible neural network model of latent cause inference. Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference 2023. (pdf)
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McCoy, R. T., Yao, S., Friedman, D., Hardy, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Embers of autoregression: Understanding large language models through the problem they are trained to solve. (preprint)
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Rane, S., Ho, M., Sucholutsky, I., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Concept alignment as a prerequisite for value alignment. AAAI 2024 Bridge on Collaborative AI and Modeling of Humans. (pdf)
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Sucholutsky, I., Muttenthaler, L., Weller, A., Peng, A., Bobu, A., Kim, B., Love, B. C., Grant, E., Achterberg, J., Tenenbaum, J. B., Collins, K. M., Hermann, K. L., Oktar, K., Greff, K., Hebart, M. N., Jacoby, N., Marjieh, R., Geirhos, R., Chen, S., Kornblith, S., Rane, S., Konkle, T., O'Connell, T. P., Unterthiner, T., Lampinen, A. K., Müller, K.-R., Toneva, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Getting aligned on representational alignment. (preprint)
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Sumers, T. R., Ho, M. K., Griffiths, T. L., & Hawkins, R. D. (2023). Reconciling truthfulness and relevance as epistemic and decision-theoretic utility. Psychological Review. (pdf)
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Sumers, T. R., Ho, M. K., Hawkins, R. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Show or tell? Exploring when (and why) teaching with language outperforms demonstration. Cognition, 232, 105326. (pdf)
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Vélez, N., Christian, B., Hardy, M., Thompson, B. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). How do humans overcome individual computational limitations by working together? Cognitive Science, 47(1), e13232. (pdf)
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Hardy, M. D., Krafft, P. M., Thompson, B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). Overcoming Individual Limitations Through Distributed Computation: Rational Information Accumulation in Multigenerational Populations. Topics in Cognitive Science, 14(3), 550–573. (pdf)
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Ho, M. K., Abel, D., Correa, C. G., Littman, M. L., Cohen, J. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). People construct simplified mental representations to plan. Nature, 606(7912), 129-136. (pdf)
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Ho, M. K., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). Cognitive science as a source of forward and inverse models of human decisions for robotics and control. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 5, 33-53. (pdf)
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Kumar, S., Correa, C. G., Dasgupta, I., Marjieh, R., Hu, M. Y., Hawkins, R.D., Daw, N. D., Cohen, J. D., Narasimhan, K. R., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). Using Natural Language and Program Abstractions to Instill Human Inductive Biases in Machines. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36. (preprint)
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Kumar, S., Sumers, T. R., Yamakoshi, T., Goldstein, A., Hasson, U., Norman, K. A., Griffiths, T. L., Hawkins, R. D., Nastase, S. A. (2022). Reconstructing the cascade of language processing in the brain using the internal computations of a transformer-based language model. (preprint)
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Murthy, S. K., Hawkins, R. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). Shades of confusion: Lexical uncertainty modulates ad hoc coordination in an interactive communication task. Cognition, 225, 105152. (pdf)
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Sumers, T. R., Hawkins, R. D., Ho, M. K., Griffiths, T. L., & Hadfield-Menell, D. (2022). How to talk so AI will learn: Instructions, descriptions, and autonomy. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36. (pdf)
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Yamakoshi, T., Griffiths, T.L., Hawkins, R.D. (2022) Probing BERT's priors with serial reproduction chains. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). (pdf)
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Barnett, S. A., Griffiths, T. L., Hawkins, R. D. (2022). A pragmatic account of the weak evidence effect. Open Mind, 6, 169-182. (pdf)
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Dubey, R., Ho, M. K., Mehta, H., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Aha! Moments correspond to meta-cognitive prediction errors. (preprint)
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Gates, V., Callaway, F., Ho, M. K., Griffiths, T. (2021). A rational model of people's inferences about others' preferences based on response times. Cognition, 217, 104885. (pdf)
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Hawkins, R. D., Liu, I., Goldberg, A. E., Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Respect the code: Speakers expect novel conventions to generalize within but not across social group boundaries. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Langlois, T. A., Zhao, H. C., Grant, E., Dasgupta, I., Griffiths, T. L., & Jacoby, N. (2021). Passive attention in artificial neural networks predicts human visual selectivity. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 34. (pdf)
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Sumers, T. R., Hawkins, R. D., Ho, M. K., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Extending rational models of communication from beliefs to actions. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Sumers, T. R., Ho, M. K., Hawkins, R. D., Narasimhan, K. R., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Learning rewards from linguistic feedback. Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (pdf)
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Callaway, F., Hardy, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Optimal nudging. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Correa, C. G.*, Ho, M. K.*, Callaway, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Resource-rational Task Decomposition to Minimize Planning Costs. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Hawkins, R. D.*, Yamakoshi, T.*, Griffiths, T. L., & Goldberg, A. E. (2020). Investigating representations of verb bias in neural language models. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). (pdf)
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Hawkins, R. D., Goodman, N. D., Goldberg, A. E., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Generalizing meanings from partners to populations: Hierarchical inference supports convention formation on networks. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Ho, M. K., Abel, D., Cohen, J. D., Littman, M. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). The Efficiency of Human Cognition Reflects Planned Information Processing. Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (pdf)
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Sumers, T. R., Ho, M. K., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Show or tell? Demonstration is more robust to changes in shared perception than explanation. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Hardy, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2019). Demonstrating the impact of prior knowledge in risky choice. (preprint)
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Jerfel, G., Grant, E. L., Griffiths, T. L., & Heller, K. (2019). Reconciling meta-learning and continual learning with online mixtures of tasks. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 32. (pdf)
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Jupyter, P., Blank, D., Bourgin, D., Brown, A., Bussonnier, M., Frederic, J., Granger, B., Griffiths, T. L., Hamrick, J., Kelley, K., Pacer, M., Page, L., Perez, F., Ragan-Kelley, B., Suchow, J. W., & Willing, C. (2019). nbgrader: A tool for creating and grading assignments in the Jupyter notebook. Journal of Open Source Education, 2(11), 32. (pdf)
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Ho, M. K., Abel, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Littman, M. L. (2019). The value of abstraction. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 29, 111-116. (pdf)
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Hsu, A. S., Martin, J. B., Sanborn, A. N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2019). Identifying category representations for complex stimuli using discrete Markov chain Monte Carlo with people. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 1706-1716. (pdf)
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Carroll, M., Shah, R., Ho, M. K., Griffiths, T., Seshia, S., Abbeel, P., & Dragan, A. (2019). On the Utility of Learning about Humans for Human-AI Coordination. In H. Wallach, H. Larochelle, A. Beygelzimer, F. Alché-Buc, E. Fox, & R. Garnett (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 32, 5174–5185. (pdf)
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Ho, M. K., Korman, J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2019). The computational structure of unintentional meaning. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L., Huys, Q. J. M., & Goodman, N. D. (2018). Empirical evidence for resource-rational anchoring and adjustment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 775-784. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L., Huys, Q. J. M., & Goodman, N. D. (2018). The anchoring bias reflects rational use of cognitive resources. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 322-349. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L., & Hsu, M (2018). Over-representation of extreme events in decision making reflects rational use of cognitive resources. Psychological Review, 125(1), 1-32. (pdf)
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Gates, M. A., Veuthey, T. L., Tessler, M. H., Smith, K. A., Gerstenberg, T., Bayet, L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2018). Tiptoeing around it: Inference from absence in potentially offensive speech. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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de Heer, W. A., Huth, A. G., Griffiths, T. L., Gallant, J. L., & Theunissen, F. E. (2017). The hierarchical cortical organization of human speech processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(27), 6539-6557. (pdf)
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Fisac, J. F., Gates, M. A., Hamrick, J. B., Liu, C., Hadfield-Menell, D., Palaniappan, M., Malik, D., Sastry, S. S., Griffiths, T. L., & Dragan, A. D. (2017). Pragmatic-Pedagogic Value Alignment. International Symposium on Robotics Research. (pdf)
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Gopnik, A., O'Grady, S., Lucas, C. G., Griffiths, T. L., Wente, A., Bridgers, S., Aboody, R., Fung, H., & Dahl, R. E. (2017). Changes in cognitive flexibility and hypothesis search across human life history from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(30), 7892-7899. (pdf)
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Callaway, F., Hamrick, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Discovering simple heuristics from mental simulation. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Huth, A. G., de Heer, W. A., Griffiths, T. L., Theunissen, F. E., & Gallant, J. L. (2016). Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile the human cerebral cortex. Nature, 532 453-458. (pdf)
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Hamrick, J. B., Battaglia, P. W., Griffiths, T. L., Tenenbaum, J. B. (2016). Inferring mass in complex scenes by mental simulation. Cognition, 157, 61-76. (pdf)
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Hsu, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Sampling assumptions affect use of indirect negative evidence in language learning PLOS One, 11(6). (pdf)
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Griffiths, T. L., Abbott, J. T., & Hsu, A. S. (2016). Exploring human cognition using large image databases. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8(3), 569-588. (pdf)
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Eaves Jr, B. S., Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., & Shafto, P. (2016). Infant-directed speech is consistent with teaching. Psychological Review (pdf)
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Hsu, A. S., Horng, A., Griffiths, T. L., & Chater, N. (2016). When absence of evidence is evidence of absence: Rational inferences from absent data. Cognitive Science, 1-13. (pdf)
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Fisac, J. F., Liu, C., Hamrick, J. B., Sastry, S., Hedrick, J. K., Griffiths, T. L., & Dragan, A. D. (2016). Generating plans that predict themselves. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR 2016). (pdf)
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Liu, C., Hamrick, J. B., Fisac, J. F., Dragan, A. D, Hendrick, J. K., Sastry, S. S, & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Goal inference improves objective and perceived performance in human-robot collaboration. Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems. (pdf)
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Hu, J., Lucas, C. G., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2015). Preschoolers' understanding of graded preferences. Cognitive Development, 36, 93-102. (pdf)
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Goodman, N. D., Frank, M. C., Griffiths, T. L., Tenenbaum, J. B., Battaglia, P., & Hamrick, J. B. (2015). Relevant and robust. A response to Marcus and Davis. Psychological Science, 26, 539-541. (pdf)
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Hamrick, J., Smith, K. A., Griffiths, T. L., & Vul, E. (2015). Think again? The amount of mental simulation tracks uncertainty in the outcome. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pdf)
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Hu, J., Whalen, A., Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2015). Can children balance the size of a majority with the quality of their information? Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Sim, Z., Hu, J. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). Children and adults differ in their strategies for social learning. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Morgan, T. J. H, & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). What the Baldwin Effect affects. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Plunkett, D., Hamrick, J. B., Russell, S. J., Hay, N. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). Algorithm selection by rational metareasoning as a model of human strategy selection. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 27. (pdf)
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Lucas, C. G., Griffiths, T. L., Xu, F., Fawcett, C., Gopnik, A., Kushnir, T., Markson, L., & Hu, J. (2014). The child as econometrician: A rational model of preference understanding in children. PLOS One, 9(3), e92160. (pdf)
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Hamrick, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). What to simulate? Inferring the right direction for mental rotation. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Hsu, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). The high availability of extreme events serves resource-rational decision-making. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., Goldwater, S., & Morgan, J. (2013). A role for the developing lexicon in phonetic category acquisition. Psychological Review, 120, 751-778. (pdf)
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Feldman, N. H., Myers, E. B., White, K. S., Griffiths, T. L., & Morgan, J. L. (2013). Word-level information influences phonetic learning in adults and infants. Cognition, 127, 427-438. (pdf)
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Abbott, J. T., Hamrick, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2013). Approximating Bayesian inference with a sparse distributed memory system. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Hu, J.. C, Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2013). When does the majority rule? Preschoolers' trust in majority informants varies by task domain. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Bouchard-Cote, A., Hall, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Klein, D. (2013) Automated reconstruction of ancient languages using probabilistic models of sound change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (pdf)
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Bugnyar, T., Boyd, R., Bossan, B., Gächter, S., Griffiths, T., Hammerstein, P., Jensen, K., Mussweiler, T., Nagel, R., & Warneken, F. (2012). Evolutionary perspectives on social cognition. In P. Hammerstein & J. R. Stevens (Eds.) Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making: Toward a Darwinian Decision Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (book)
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Hsu, A. S, Martin, J. B., Sanborn, A. N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). Identifying representations of categories of discrete items using Markov chain Monte Carlo with People. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Abbott, J. T., Heller, K. A., Ghahramani, Z., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). Testing a Bayesian measure of representativeness using a large image database. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 24. (pdf)
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Feldman, N. H., Myers, E., White, K., Griffiths, T. L., & Morgan, J. L. (2011). Learners use word-level statistics in phonetic category acquisition. Proceedings of the 35th Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pdf)
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Shi, L., Griffiths, T. L., Feldman, N. H., & Sanborn, A. N. (2010). Exemplar models as a mechanism for performing Bayesian inference. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17 (4), 443-464. (pdf)
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Hsu, A., Griffiths, T. L., & Schreiber, E. (2010). Subjective randomness and natural scene statistics. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 624-629. (pdf)
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Hsu, A. S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Effects of generative and discriminative learning on use of category variability. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Hsu, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). Differential use of implicit negative evidence in generative and discriminative language learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22. (pdf)
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Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., & Morgan, J. L. (2009). The influence of categories on perception: Explaining the perceptual magnet effect as optimal statistical inference. Psychological Review, 116, 752-782. (pdf)
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Jaeger, H., Baronchelli, A., Briscoe, T., Christiansen, M. H., Griffiths, T. L., Jager, G., Kirby, S., Komarova, N. L., Richerson, P. J., Steels, L., & Triesch, J (2009). What can mathematical, computational and robotic models tell us about the origins of syntax? In D. Bickerton & E. Szathmary (Eds.) Biological foundations and origins of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., & Morgan, J. L. (2009). Learning phonetic categories by learning a lexicon. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Shi, L., Feldman, N. H., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). Performing Bayesian inference with exemplar models. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Feldman, N. H., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). A rational account of the perceptual magnet effect. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

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