Alison Gopnik

According to our database, Alison Gopnik authored at least 61 papers between 1990 and 2024.

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2024

Children's Mental Models of Generative Visual and Text Based AI Models.

Eliza Kosoy, Soojin Jeong, Anoop Sinha, Alison Gopnik, Tanya Kraljic

CoRR, 2024

2023

Comparing Machines and Children: Using Developmental Psychology Experiments to Assess the Strengths and Weaknesses of LaMDA Responses.

Eliza Kosoy, Emily Rose Reagan, Leslie Lai, Alison Gopnik, Danielle Krettek Cobb

CoRR, 2023

Imitation versus Innovation: What children can do that large language and language-and-vision models cannot (yet)?

Eunice Yiu, Eliza Kosoy, Alison Gopnik

CoRR, 2023

Discovering New Functions in Everyday Tools by Children, Adults and LLM's.

Eunice Yiu, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Flexible spatial memory in children: Different reference frames on different axes.

Benjamin Pitt, Sahra Aalaei, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Towards Understanding How Machines Can Learn Causal Overhypotheses.

Eliza Kosoy, David M. Chan, Adrian Liu, Jasmine Collins, Jessica B. Hamrick, Sandy Han Huang, Nan Rosemary Ke, Emily Rose Reagan, John F. Canny, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2022

Towards Understanding How Machines Can Learn Causal Overhypotheses.

Eliza Kosoy, David M. Chan, Adrian Liu, Jasmine Collins, Bryanna Kaufmann, Sandy Han Huang, Jessica B. Hamrick, John F. Canny, Nan Rosemary Ke, Alison Gopnik

CoRR, 2022

Preschoolers and adults make inferences from novel metaphors.

Rebecca Zhu, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Three-Dimensional Object Completion in Humans and Computational Models.

Eunice Yiu, Jasmine Collins, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Learning Causal Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models.

Eliza Kosoy, Adrian Liu, Jasmine Collins, David M. Chan, Jessica B. Hamrick, Sandy Han Huang, Nan Rosemary Ke, Bryanna Kaufmann, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Learning Causal Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models.

Eliza Kosoy, Adrian Liu, Jasmine Collins, David M. Chan, Jessica B. Hamrick, Nan Rosemary Ke, Sandy H. Huang, Bryanna Kaufmann, John F. Canny, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning, 2022

Causal Models and Cognitive Development.

Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the Probabilistic and Causal Inference: The Works of Judea Pearl, 2022

2021

From Robot Learning To Robot Understanding: Leveraging Causal Graphical Models For Robotics.

Kaylene Caswell Stocking, Alison Gopnik, Claire J. Tomlin

Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning, 8-11 November 2021, London, UK., 2021

Providing explanations shifts preschoolers' metaphor preferences.

Rebecca Zhu, Mariel Goddu, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

"It Depends": How Children Reason about Stable and Unstable Causes.

Nadya Vasilyeva, Mei Murphy, Oce Bohra, Jenny Chen, Selena Xandra Cuevas, Samhita Katteri, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

The Omniglot Jr. challenge; Can a model achieve child-level character generation and classification?

Eliza Kosoy, Masha Belyi, Charlie Snell, Brenden M. Lake, Josh Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

2020

Exploring Exploration: Comparing Children with RL Agents in Unified Environments.

Eliza Kosoy, Jasmine Collins, David M. Chan, Jessica B. Hamrick, Sandy H. Huang, Alison Gopnik, John F. Canny

CoRR, 2020

What Does "Mind-Wandering" Mean to the Folk? An Empirical Investigation.

Zachary C. Irving, Aaron Glasser, Alison Gopnik, Verity Pinter, Chandra Sripada

Cogn. Sci., 2020

When and how do toddlers in rural Western Kenya understand the referential nature of pictures?

Rebecca Zhu, Helen Pitchik, Lia Fernald, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

4- and 5-Year-Olds' Comprehension of Functional Metaphors.

Rebecca Zhu, Mariel Goddu, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

When Generic Language does not Promote Psychological Essentialism.

Nadya Vasilyeva, Alison Gopnik, Tania Lombrozo

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Exploring Exploration: Comparing Children with Agents in Unified Exploration Environments.

Eliza Kosoy, Jasmine Collins, David M. Chan, Deepak Pathak, Pulkit Agrawal, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

The Development of Creative Search Strategies.

Yuval Hart, Eliza Kosoy, Emily Liquin, Julia A. Leonard, Allyson Mackey, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Toddlers and preschoolers use relational concepts to solve problems.

Mariel Goddu, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

The Origins of Common Sense in Humans and Machines.

Kevin Smith, Eliza Kosoy, Alison Gopnik, Deepak Pathak, Alan Fern, Josh Tenenbaum, Tomer D. Ullman

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019

Sticking to the Evidence? A Behavioral and Computational Case Study of Micro-Theory Change in the Domain of Magnetism.

Elizabeth Bonawitz, Tomer D. Ullman, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Cogn. Sci., 2019

Curiouser and Curiouser: Children's intrinsic exploration of mazes and its effects on reaching a goal.

Eliza Kosoy, Deepak Pathak, Pulkit Agrawal, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018

Evaluating Theory of Mind in Question Answering.

Aida Nematzadeh, Kaylee Burns, Erin Grant, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, October 31, 2018

Exploiting Attention to Reveal Shortcomings in Memory Models.

Kaylee Burns, Aida Nematzadeh, Erin Grant, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths

Proceedings of the Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2018

Preschoolers adapt their exploratory strategies to the information structure of the task.

Nora Swaboda, Azzurra Ruggeri, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Identifying the structure of hypotheses that guide search during development.

Doug Markant, Angela Jones, Thorsten Pachur, Alison Gopnik, Azzurra Ruggeri

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Models of Human Scientific Discovery.

Robert L. Goldstone, Alison Gopnik, Paul Thagard, Tomer D. Ullman

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Workshop Understanding Exploration-Exploitation Trade-offs.

Elizabeth Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik, Celeste Kidd

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017

Desires influence 4- to 6-year-old children's probabilistic judgments.

Adrienne Wente, Mariel Goddu, Elyanah Posner, Teresa Garcia, María Fernández Flecha, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

More than meets the eye: Early relational reasoning cannot be reduced to perceptual heuristics.

Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

The Development of Structural Thinking about Social Categories.

Nadya Vasilyeva, Alison Gopnik, Tania Lombrozo

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

I know what you need to know: Children's developing theory of mind and pedagogical evidence selection.

Ilona Bass, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto, Dhaya Ramarajan, Alison Gopnik, Henry Wellman

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2016

Which Counterfactuals Matter? A Response to Beck.

Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Alison Gopnik

Cogn. Sci., 2016

The Relationship Between Inhibitory Control and Free Will Beliefs in 4-to 6-Year-Old-Children.

Adrienne Wente, Titus Ting, Rosie Aboody, Tamar Kushnir, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

2015

Culture, causal attributions, and development: A comparison of Chinese and U.S. 4-and 6-year-olds.

Adrienne Wente, Sophie Bridgers, Xin Zhao, Yixin Cui, Elizabeth Seiver, Zhanxing Li, Liqi Zhu, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

The early emergence and puzzling decline of relational reasoning: Effects of prior knowledge and search on inferring 'same' and 'different'.

Caren M. Walker, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Learning to reason about desires: An infant training study.

Tiffany Doan, Stephanie Denison, Christopher G. Lucas, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

2014

Cultural variability in young children's folk intuitions of free will.

Adrienne Wente, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik, Xin Zhao, Liqi Zhu, Elizabeth Seiver

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

Language acquisition and the onset of relational reasoning in infants.

Caren M. Walker, Samantha Hubachek, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

2013

Pretense, Counterfactuals, and Bayesian Causal Models: Why What Is Not Real Really Matters.

Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Alison Gopnik

Cogn. Sci., 2013

Explaining to Others Prompts Children to Favor Inductively Rich Properties.

Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo, Cristine H. Legare, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

24-Month-Olds Engage in Relational Causal Reasoning.

Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

What if? Counterfactual reasoning, pretense, and the role of possible worlds.

Daphna Buchsbaum, Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik, Nick Chater, David Danks, Christopher G. Lucas, Charles Kemp, Eva Rafetseder, Josef Perner

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

2012

Sticking to the Evidence? A computational and behavioral case study of micro-theory change in the domain of magnetism.

Elizabeth Bonawitz, Tomer D. Ullman, Alison Gopnik, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, 2012

Explaining Influences Children's Reliance on Evidence and Prior Knowledge in Causal Induction.

Caren M. Walker, Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Children's Causal Learning from Fiction: Assessing the Proximity Between Real and Fictional Worlds.

Caren M. Walker, Patricia Ganea, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Seeing who sees: Contrastive access helps children reason about other minds.

Kathie Pham, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Is that your final answer? The effects of neutral queries on children's choices.

Aaron Gonzalez, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Do I know that you know what you know? Modeling testimony in causal inference.

Daphna Buchsbaum, Sophie Bridgers, Andrew Whalen, Elizabeth Seiver, Thomas L. Griffiths, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

2011

Bayes and Blickets: Effects of Knowledge on Causal Induction in Children and Adults.

Thomas L. Griffiths, David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik

Cogn. Sci., 2011

Cross-domain variation in children's causal reasoning.

Elizabeth Seiver, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

A Simple Sequential Algorithm for Approximating Bayesian Inference.

Elizabeth Bonawitz, Stephanie Denison, Annie Chen, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths

Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

2010

Inferring Hidden Causal Structure.

Tamar Kushnir, Alison Gopnik, Christopher G. Lucas, Laura Schulz

Cogn. Sci., 2010

2004

Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers.

David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik

Cogn. Sci., 2004

1998

Explanation as Orgasm.

Alison Gopnik

Minds Mach., 1998

1990

Relations between thought and language in infancy.

Andrew N. Meltzoff, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1990