Amy Perfors

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2002-2020
Publications (10 Years): 21

Top Topics

Decision Making

Inductive Inference

Hypothesis Spaces

Top Venues

Publications

Vanessa Ferdinand, Amy Perfors
The evolution of category systems within and between learners. CogSci (2020)
Micah B. Goldwater, Amy Perfors, Zachary Horne, Cristine H. Legare, Ellen M. Markman
Health beliefs and decision making. CogSci (2020)
Wai Keen Vong, Andrew T. Hendrickson, Danielle J. Navarro, Amy Perfors
Do Additional Features Help or Hurt Category Learning? The Curse of Dimensionality in Human Learners. Cogn. Sci. 43 (3) (2019)
Amy Perfors, Danielle J. Navarro
Why do echo chambers form? The role of trust, population heterogeneity, and objective truth. CogSci (2019)
Yung Han Khoe, Amy Perfors, Andrew Hendrickson
Modeling individual performance in cross-situational word learning. CogSci (2019)
Vanessa Ferdinand, Charles Kemp, Amy Perfors
The impact of frequency on the evolution of category systems. CogSci (2019)
Samarth Mehrotra, Amy Perfors
Generic noun phrases in child speech. CogSci (2019)
Keith Ransom, Amy Perfors
Exploring the role that encoding and retrieval play in sampling effects. CogSci (2019)
Keith Ransom, Andrew Hendrickson, Amy Perfors, Danielle J. Navarro
Representational and sampling assumptions drive individual differences in single category generalisation. CogSci (2018)
Amy Perfors, Danielle J. Navarro, Patrick Shafto
Stronger evidence isn't always better: A role for social inference in evidence selection and interpretation. CogSci (2018)
Simon De Deyne, Amy Perfors, Danielle J. Navarro
Learning word meaning with little means: An investigation into the inferential capacity of paradigmatic information. CogSci (2018)
Danielle J. Navarro, Amy Perfors, Arthur Kary, Scott D. Brown, Christopher Donkin
When Extremists Win: Cultural Transmission Via Iterated Learning When Populations Are Heterogeneous. Cogn. Sci. 42 (7) (2018)
Amy Perfors, Nicholas T. Van Dam
Human decision making in black swan situations. CogSci (2018)
Daniel J. Navarro, Amy Perfors, Arthur Kary, Scott Brown, Christopher Donkin
When extremists win: On the behavior of iterated learning chains when priors are heterogeneous. CogSci (2017)
Lauren Kennedy, Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
Priors, informative cues and ambiguity aversion. CogSci (2017)
Steven Langsford, Andrew Hendrickson, Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
When do learned transformations influence similarity and categorization? CogSci (2017)
Keith Ransom, Wouter Voorspoels, Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
A cognitive analysis of deception without lying. CogSci (2017)
Simon De Deyne, Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
Predicting Human Similarity Judgments with Distributional Models: The Value of Word Associations. IJCAI (2017)
Wai Keen Vong, Andrew Hendrickson, Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
Do additional features help or harm during category learning? An exploration of the curse of dimensionality in human learners. CogSci (2016)
Keith Ransom, Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
Leaping to Conclusions: Why Premise Relevance Affects Argument Strength. Cogn. Sci. 40 (7) (2016)
Simon De Deyne, Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
Predicting human similarity judgments with distributional models: The value of word associations. COLING (2016)
Keith Ransom, Wouter Voorspoels, Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
Sensitivity to communicative norms when deceiving without lying. CogSci (2015)
Simon De Deyne, Steven Verheyen, Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
Evidence for widespread thematic structure in the mental lexicon. CogSci (2015)
Wouter Voorspoels, Daniel J. Navarro, Amy Perfors, Keith Ransom
Gricean maxims influence inductive inference with negative observations. CogSci (2015)
Sean Tauber, Daniel J. Navarro, Amy Perfors, Michael D. Lee
Inferring the hypothesis spaces underlying inductive generalization. CogSci (2014)
Andrew Hendrickson, Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
Adaptive information source selection during hypothesis testing. CogSci (2014)
Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
Language Evolution Can Be Shaped by the Structure of the World. Cogn. Sci. 38 (4) (2014)
Wai Keen Vong, Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
The relevance of labels in semi-supervised learning depends on category structure. CogSci (2014)
Amy Perfors, Keith Ransom, Daniel J. Navarro
People ignore token frequency when deciding how widely to generalize. CogSci (2014)
Steven Langsford, Andrew Hendrickson, Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
People are sensitive to hypothesis sparsity during category discrimination. CogSci (2014)
Wai Keen Vong, Andrew Hendrickson, Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
The role of sampling assumptions in generalization with multiple categories. CogSci (2013)
Simon De Deyne, Daniel J. Navarro, Amy Perfors, Gert Storms
Strong structure in weak semantic similarity: A graph based account. CogSci (2012)
Daniel J. Navarro, Amy Perfors
Anticipating changes: Adaptation and extrapolation in category learning. CogSci (2012)
Amy Perfors, Jia Hoong Ong
Musicians are better at learning non-native sound contrasts even in non-tonal languages. CogSci (2012)
Amy Perfors
Probability matching vs over-regularization in language: Participant behavior depends on their interpretation of the task. CogSci (2012)
Amy Perfors, Daniel J. Navarro
Language evolution is shaped by the structure of the world: An iterated learning analysis. CogSci (2011)
Amy Perfors
Memory limitations alone do not lead to over-regularization: An experimental and computational investigation. CogSci (2011)
Robert Montague, Daniel J. Navarro, Amy Perfors, Russell Warner, Patrick Shafto
To catch a liar: The effects of truthful and deceptive testimony on inferential learning. CogSci (2011)
Sylvia Yuan, Amy Perfors, Josh Tenenbaum, Fei Xu
Learning individual words and learning about words simultaneously. CogSci (2011)
Dinis Gökaydin, Anna Ma-Wyatt, Daniel J. Navarro, Amy Perfors
Humans use different statistics for sequence analysis depending on the task. CogSci (2011)
Luke Maurits, Daniel J. Navarro, Amy Perfors
Why are some word orders more common than others? A uniform information density account. NIPS (2010)
Stephani Foraker, Terry Regier, Naveen Khetarpal, Amy Perfors, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
. Cogn. Sci. 33 (2) (2009)
Amy Perfors
Simulated Evolution of Language: a Review of the Field. J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul. 5 (2) (2002)