Caren M. Walker

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2011-2024
Publications (10 Years): 34

Top Topics

Causal Inferences

Early Childhood

Mechanical Systems

Causal Structure

Top Venues

Creativity & Cognition

CHI Extended Abstracts

Publications

Jamie Amemiya, Gail D. Heyman, Caren M. Walker
Calculated Comparisons: Manufacturing Societal Causal Judgments by Implying Different Counterfactual Outcomes. Cogn. Sci. 48 (2) (2024)
Alexandra Carstensen, Anjie Cao, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Di Liu, Yichun Liu, Minh Khong Bui, Jiayi Wang-Zhao, Qi Han, Caren M. Walker, Michael C. Frank
Cognitive diversity in context: US-China developmental trajectories on 4 tasks in 3-12yos. CogSci (2023)
Elizabeth Lapidow, Amberley R. Stein, Caren M. Walker
Children Use Causality to Guide Question Asking. CogSci (2023)
Alexandra Carstensen, Minju Kim, Gayoung Kim, Meizi Jin, Minjin Kang, Youngon Choi, Caren M. Walker
Relational abstraction in early childhood: Three cultures and three trajectories. CogSci (2023)
Jamie Amemiya, Gail D. Heyman, Caren M. Walker
The Role of Alternatives in Children's Reasoning about Constrained Choices. CogSci (2022)
Elizabeth Lapidow, Mariel Goddu, Caren M. Walker
Reasoning from Samples to Populations: Children Use Variability Information to Predict Novel Outcomes. CogSci (2022)
Alexandra Carstensen, Chiara Saponaro, Michael C. Frank, Caren M. Walker
Bridging cultural and cognitive perspectives on similarity reasoning. CogSci (2022)
Tricia J. Ngoon, Vivian Leung, Micah B. Goldwater, Caren M. Walker
Exploration as a Learning Strategy to Support Children's Pattern Learning. CogSci (2022)
Alexandra Rett, Micah B. Goldwater, Caren M. Walker
Children's Recognition of Shared Causal Structure in Mechanical Systems. CogSci (2022)
Elizabeth Lapidow, Caren M. Walker
Clarifying the Causal Logic of a Classic Control of Variables Task. CogSci (2022)
Alexandra Rett, Jamie Amemiya, Micah B. Goldwater, Caren M. Walker
Children's Use of Causal Structure When Making Similarity Judgments. CogSci (2021)
Jamie Amemiya, Gail D. Heyman, Caren M. Walker
How People Make Causal Judgments about Unprecedented Societal Events. CogSci (2021)
Holly Huey, Caren M. Walker, Judith E. Fan
How do the semantic properties of visual explanations guide causal inference? CogSci (2021)
Minju Kim, Caren M. Walker
Preschoolers' Spontaneous Gesture Production Predicts Analogical Transfer. CogSci (2021)
Elizabeth Lapidow, Junyi Chu, Caren M. Walker
Knowing the Shape of the Solution: Causal Structure Constrains Evaluation of Possible Causes. CogSci (2021)
Mariel Goddu, Caren M. Walker
Certain to be surprised: A preference for novel causal outcomes develops in early childhood. CogSci (2020)
Erik Brockbank, Caren M. Walker
Explanation Supports Hypothesis Generation in Learning. CogSci (2020)
Elizabeth Lapidow, Isabella Killeen, Caren M. Walker
Exploration Decisions Precede and Improve Explicit Uncertainty Judgments in Preschoolers. CogSci (2020)
Mariel Goddu, Caren M. Walker
What else could happen? Two-, three-, and four-year-olds use variability information to infer novel causal outcomes. CogSci (2020)
Jamie Amemiya, Elizabeth Mortenson, Sohee Ahn, Caren M. Walker, Gail D. Heyman
Stereotypes Decrease Children's Tendency to Acknowledge Constraints on Choice. CogSci (2020)
Alexandra Rett, Caren M. Walker
Knowing when to quit: Children consider access to solutions when deciding whether to persist. CogSci (2020)
Elizabeth Lapidow, Caren M. Walker
Does the intuitive scientist conduct informative experiments?: Children's early ability to select and learn from their own interventions. CogSci (2019)
Amy Rae Fox, James D. Hollan, Caren M. Walker
When Graph Comprehension Is An Insight Problem. CogSci (2019)
Alexandra Rett, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Koeun Choi, Caren M. Walker
"I Never Even Considered That!": Investigating explanations for adults' failures to learn conjunctive causal rules. CogSci (2019)
Alexandra Rett, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Caren M. Walker
The Design of the Learning Environment Shapes Preschoolers' Causal Inference. CogSci (2019)
Katharine Tillman, Caren M. Walker
Children's causal inferences about past vs. future events. CogSci (2019)
Isabella Killeen, Caren M. Walker
Learning to Recognize Uncertainty: Effects of Disconfirming Evidence on Confidence Scale Use in Preschoolers. CogSci (2019)
Angela Nyhout, Alana Iannuzziello, Caren M. Walker, Patricia Ganea
Thinking counterfactually supports children's ability to conduct a controlled test of a hypothesis. CogSci (2019)
Tricia J. Ngoon, Caren M. Walker, Scott R. Klemmer
The Dark Side of Satisficing: Setting the Temperature of Creative Thinking. Creativity & Cognition (2019)
Jae Engle, Caren M. Walker
Considering alternatives facilitates anomaly detection in preschoolers. CogSci (2018)
Mariel Goddu, Caren M. Walker
Toddlers and Adults Simultaneously Track Multiple Hypotheses in a Causal Learning Task. CogSci (2018)
Alexandra Carstensen, Caren M. Walker
The paradox of relational development is not universal: Abstract reasoning develops differently across cultures. CogSci (2017)
Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik
More than meets the eye: Early relational reasoning cannot be reduced to perceptual heuristics. CogSci (2017)
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)
Caren M. Walker, Samantha Hubachek, Alison Gopnik
Language acquisition and the onset of relational reasoning in infants. CogSci (2014)
Joseph Jay Williams, Geza Kovacs, Caren M. Walker, Samuel G. Maldonado, Tania Lombrozo
Learning online via prompts to explain. CHI Extended Abstracts (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)
Joseph Jay Williams, Caren M. Walker, Samuel G. Maldonado, Tania Lombrozo
Effects of Explaining Anomalies on the Generation and Evaluation of Hypotheses. CogSci (2013)
Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik
24-Month-Olds Engage in Relational Causal Reasoning. CogSci (2013)
Caren M. Walker, Patricia Ganea, Alison Gopnik
Children's Causal Learning from Fiction: Assessing the Proximity Between Real and Fictional Worlds. CogSci (2012)
Joseph Jay Williams, Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo
Explaining increases belief revision in the face of (many) anomalies. CogSci (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)
Caren M. Walker, Lisa Walker, Patricia Ganea
Early Exposure to Pictures Facilitates Development of Referential Understanding. CogSci (2011)