Alison Gopnik

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1990-2024
Publications (10 Years): 41

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Publications

Eliza Kosoy, Soojin Jeong, Anoop Sinha, Alison Gopnik, Tanya Kraljic
Children's Mental Models of Generative Visual and Text Based AI Models. CoRR (2024)
Eunice Yiu, Maan Qraitem, Charlie Wong, Anisa Noor Majhi, Yutong Bai, Shiry Ginosar, Alison Gopnik, Kate Saenko
KiVA: Kid-inspired Visual Analogies for Testing Large Multimodal Models. CoRR (2024)
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
Towards Understanding How Machines Can Learn Causal Overhypotheses. CogSci (2023)
Eunice Yiu, Alison Gopnik
Discovering New Functions in Everyday Tools by Children, Adults and LLM's. CogSci (2023)
Eliza Kosoy, Emily Rose Reagan, Leslie Lai, Alison Gopnik, Danielle Krettek Cobb
Comparing Machines and Children: Using Developmental Psychology Experiments to Assess the Strengths and Weaknesses of LaMDA Responses. CoRR (2023)
Benjamin Pitt, Sahra Aalaei, Alison Gopnik
Flexible spatial memory in children: Different reference frames on different axes. CogSci (2023)
Eunice Yiu, Eliza Kosoy, Alison Gopnik
Imitation versus Innovation: What children can do that large language and language-and-vision models cannot (yet)? CoRR (2023)
Eunice Yiu, Jasmine Collins, Alison Gopnik
Three-Dimensional Object Completion in Humans and Computational Models. CogSci (2022)
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
Towards Understanding How Machines Can Learn Causal Overhypotheses. CoRR (2022)
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
Learning Causal Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models. CoRR (2022)
Eliza Kosoy, Adrian Liu, Jasmine Collins, David M. Chan, Jessica B. Hamrick, Sandy Han Huang, Nan Rosemary Ke, Bryanna Kaufmann, Alison Gopnik
Learning Causal Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models. CogSci (2022)
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
Learning Causal Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models. CLeaR (2022)
Rebecca Zhu, Alison Gopnik
Preschoolers and adults make inferences from novel metaphors. CogSci (2022)
Kaylene Caswell Stocking, Alison Gopnik, Claire J. Tomlin
From Robot Learning To Robot Understanding: Leveraging Causal Graphical Models For Robotics. CoRL (2021)
Eliza Kosoy, Masha Belyi, Charlie Snell, Brenden M. Lake, Josh Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik
The Omniglot Jr. challenge; Can a model achieve child-level character generation and classification? CogSci (2021)
Nadya Vasilyeva, Mei Murphy, Oce Bohra, Jenny Chen, Selena Xandra Cuevas, Samhita Katteri, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik
"It Depends": How Children Reason about Stable and Unstable Causes. CogSci (2021)
Rebecca Zhu, Mariel Goddu, Alison Gopnik
Providing explanations shifts preschoolers' metaphor preferences. CogSci (2021)
Mariel Goddu, Alison Gopnik
Toddlers and preschoolers use relational concepts to solve problems. CogSci (2020)
Eliza Kosoy, Jasmine Collins, David M. Chan, Deepak Pathak, Pulkit Agrawal, Alison Gopnik
Exploring Exploration: Comparing Children with Agents in Unified Exploration Environments. CogSci (2020)
Rebecca Zhu, Helen Pitchik, Lia Fernald, Alison Gopnik
When and how do toddlers in rural Western Kenya understand the referential nature of pictures? CogSci (2020)
Yuval Hart, Eliza Kosoy, Emily Liquin, Julia A. Leonard, Allyson Mackey, Alison Gopnik
The Development of Creative Search Strategies. CogSci (2020)
Zachary C. Irving, Aaron Glasser, Alison Gopnik, Verity Pinter, Chandra Sripada
What Does "Mind-Wandering" Mean to the Folk? An Empirical Investigation. Cogn. Sci. 44 (10) (2020)
Eliza Kosoy, Jasmine Collins, David M. Chan, Jessica B. Hamrick, Sandy H. Huang, Alison Gopnik, John F. Canny
Exploring Exploration: Comparing Children with RL Agents in Unified Environments. CoRR (2020)
Rebecca Zhu, Mariel Goddu, Alison Gopnik
4- and 5-Year-Olds' Comprehension of Functional Metaphors. CogSci (2020)
Kevin Smith, Eliza Kosoy, Alison Gopnik, Deepak Pathak, Alan Fern, Josh Tenenbaum, Tomer D. Ullman
The Origins of Common Sense in Humans and Machines. CogSci (2020)
Nadya Vasilyeva, Alison Gopnik, Tania Lombrozo
When Generic Language does not Promote Psychological Essentialism. CogSci (2020)
Eliza Kosoy, Deepak Pathak, Pulkit Agrawal, Alison Gopnik
Curiouser and Curiouser: Children's intrinsic exploration of mazes and its effects on reaching a goal. CogSci (2019)
Elizabeth Bonawitz, Tomer D. Ullman, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
Sticking to the Evidence? A Behavioral and Computational Case Study of Micro-Theory Change in the Domain of Magnetism. Cogn. Sci. 43 (8) (2019)
Kaylee Burns, Aida Nematzadeh, Erin Grant, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths
Exploiting Attention to Reveal Shortcomings in Memory Models. BlackboxNLP@EMNLP (2018)
Nora Swaboda, Azzurra Ruggeri, Alison Gopnik
Preschoolers adapt their exploratory strategies to the information structure of the task. CogSci (2018)
Doug Markant, Angela Jones, Thorsten Pachur, Alison Gopnik, Azzurra Ruggeri
Identifying the structure of hypotheses that guide search during development. CogSci (2018)
Robert L. Goldstone, Alison Gopnik, Paul Thagard, Tomer D. Ullman
Models of Human Scientific Discovery. CogSci (2018)
Aida Nematzadeh, Kaylee Burns, Erin Grant, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths
Evaluating Theory of Mind in Question Answering. CoRR (2018)
Elizabeth Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik, Celeste Kidd
Workshop Understanding Exploration-Exploitation Trade-offs. CogSci (2018)
Aida Nematzadeh, Kaylee Burns, Erin Grant, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths
Evaluating Theory of Mind in Question Answering. EMNLP (2018)
Adrienne Wente, Mariel Goddu, Elyanah Posner, Teresa Garcia, María Fernández Flecha, Alison Gopnik
Desires influence 4- to 6-year-old children's probabilistic judgments. CogSci (2017)
Nadya Vasilyeva, Alison Gopnik, Tania Lombrozo
The Development of Structural Thinking about Social Categories. CogSci (2017)
Ilona Bass, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto, Dhaya Ramarajan, Alison Gopnik, Henry Wellman
I know what you need to know: Children's developing theory of mind and pedagogical evidence selection. CogSci (2017)
Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik
More than meets the eye: Early relational reasoning cannot be reduced to perceptual heuristics. CogSci (2017)
Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Alison Gopnik
Which Counterfactuals Matter? A Response to Beck. Cogn. Sci. 40 (1) (2016)
Adrienne Wente, Titus Ting, Rosie Aboody, Tamar Kushnir, Alison Gopnik
The Relationship Between Inhibitory Control and Free Will Beliefs in 4-to 6-Year-Old-Children. CogSci (2016)
Tiffany Doan, Stephanie Denison, Christopher G. Lucas, Alison Gopnik
Learning to reason about desires: An infant training study. CogSci (2015)
Caren M. Walker, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik
The early emergence and puzzling decline of relational reasoning: Effects of prior knowledge and search on inferring 'same' and 'different'. CogSci (2015)
Adrienne Wente, Sophie Bridgers, Xin Zhao, Yixin Cui, Elizabeth Seiver, Zhanxing Li, Liqi Zhu, Alison Gopnik
Culture, causal attributions, and development: A comparison of Chinese and U.S. 4-and 6-year-olds. CogSci (2015)
Caren M. Walker, Samantha Hubachek, Alison Gopnik
Language acquisition and the onset of relational reasoning in infants. CogSci (2014)
Adrienne Wente, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik, Xin Zhao, Liqi Zhu, Elizabeth Seiver
Cultural variability in young children's folk intuitions of free will. CogSci (2014)
Daphna Buchsbaum, Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik, Nick Chater, David Danks, Christopher G. Lucas, Charles Kemp, Eva Rafetseder, Josef Perner
What if? Counterfactual reasoning, pretense, and the role of possible worlds. CogSci (2013)
Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo, Cristine H. Legare, Alison Gopnik
Explaining to Others Prompts Children to Favor Inductively Rich Properties. CogSci (2013)
Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Alison Gopnik
Pretense, Counterfactuals, and Bayesian Causal Models: Why What Is Not Real Really Matters. Cogn. Sci. 37 (7) (2013)
Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik
24-Month-Olds Engage in Relational Causal Reasoning. CogSci (2013)
Aaron Gonzalez, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik
Is that your final answer? The effects of neutral queries on children's choices. CogSci (2012)
Caren M. Walker, Patricia Ganea, Alison Gopnik
Children's Causal Learning from Fiction: Assessing the Proximity Between Real and Fictional Worlds. CogSci (2012)
Kathie Pham, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik
Seeing who sees: Contrastive access helps children reason about other minds. CogSci (2012)
Daphna Buchsbaum, Sophie Bridgers, Andrew Whalen, Elizabeth Seiver, Thomas L. Griffiths, Alison Gopnik
Do I know that you know what you know? Modeling testimony in causal inference. CogSci (2012)
Elizabeth Bonawitz, Tomer Ullman, Alison Gopnik, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
Sticking to the Evidence? A computational and behavioral case study of micro-theory change in the domain of magnetism. ICDL-EPIROB (2012)
Caren M. Walker, Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik
Explaining Influences Children's Reliance on Evidence and Prior Knowledge in Causal Induction. CogSci (2012)
Elizabeth Seiver, Alison Gopnik
Cross-domain variation in children's causal reasoning. CogSci (2011)
Thomas L. Griffiths, David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik
Bayes and Blickets: Effects of Knowledge on Causal Induction in Children and Adults. Cogn. Sci. 35 (8) (2011)
Elizabeth Bonawitz, Stephanie Denison, Annie Chen, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths
A Simple Sequential Algorithm for Approximating Bayesian Inference. CogSci (2011)
Tamar Kushnir, Alison Gopnik, Christopher G. Lucas, Laura Schulz
Inferring Hidden Causal Structure. Cogn. Sci. 34 (1) (2010)
David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik
Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers. Cogn. Sci. 28 (3) (2004)
Alison Gopnik
Explanation as Orgasm. Minds Mach. 8 (1) (1998)
Andrew N. Meltzoff, Alison Gopnik
Relations between thought and language in infancy. ICSLP (1990)