Alison Gopnik - RankMe

75 papers A* 2B 49Misc 1Journal 18Unranked 4

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	B	`conf`	Beyond Rewards: How Information Value and Time Horizon Shape Exploration. CogSci Annya L. Dahmani, Dorsa Amir, Alison Gopnik
2025	B	`conf`	Children Spontaneously Design Curricula to Tackle Challenging Tasks. CogSci Annya L. Dahmani, Eunice Yiu, Alison Gopnik
2025	B	`conf`	Children use both controllability and variability for generalization. CogSci Eunice Yiu, Anisa Noor Majhi, Shiry Ginosar, Kelsey R. Allen, Alison Gopnik
2025	J	`jnl`	Empowerment Gain and Causal Model Construction: Children and adults are sensitive to controllability and variability in their causal interventions. CoRR Eunice Yiu, Kelsey R. Allen, Shiry Ginosar, Alison Gopnik
2025	J	`jnl`	Intrinsically-Motivated Humans and Agents in Open-World Exploration. CoRR Aly Lidayan, Yuqing Du, Eliza Kosoy, Maria Rufova, Pieter Abbeel, Alison Gopnik
2025	A*	`conf`	KiVA: Kid-inspired Visual Analogies for Testing Large Multimodal Models. ICLR Eunice Yiu, Maan Qraitem, Anisa Noor Majhi, Charlie Wong, Yutong Bai, Shiry Ginosar, Alison Gopnik, Kate Saenko
2025	B	`conf`	The cognitive science of caregiving. CogSci Reut Shachnai, Julia A. Leonard, Alison Gopnik, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Lindsey J. Powell
2025	B	`conf`	Understand Intrinsic Motivation in Causal Learning Through Exploration. CogSci Fei Dai, Alison Gopnik
2024	B	`conf`	Caregiver presence promotes judgements of exploration. CogSci Annya L. Dahmani, Dorsa Amir, Ashley J. Thomas, Alison Gopnik
2024	J	`jnl`	Children's Mental Models of Generative Visual and Text Based AI Models. CoRR Eliza Kosoy, Soojin Jeong, Anoop K. Sinha, Alison Gopnik, Tanya Kraljic
2024	B	`conf`	Enhancing Effects of Causal Scaffolding on Preschoolers' Analogical Reasoning Abilities. CogSci Emily Rose Reagan, Verity Pinter, Mariel K. Goddu, Alison Gopnik
2024	J	`jnl`	KiVA: Kid-inspired Visual Analogies for Testing Large Multimodal Models. CoRR Eunice Yiu, Maan Qraitem, Charlie Wong, Anisa Noor Majhi, Yutong Bai, Shiry Ginosar, Alison Gopnik, Kate Saenko
2024	B	`conf`	To observe or to bet? Investigating purely exploratory and purely exploitative actions in children, adults, and computational models. CogSci Eunice Yiu, Kai Sandbrink, Alison Gopnik
2023	J	`jnl`	Comparing Machines and Children: Using Developmental Psychology Experiments to Assess the Strengths and Weaknesses of LaMDA Responses. CoRR Eliza Kosoy, Emily Rose Reagan, Leslie Lai, Alison Gopnik, Danielle Krettek Cobb
2023	B	`conf`	Discovering New Functions in Everyday Tools by Children, Adults and LLM's. CogSci Eunice Yiu, Alison Gopnik
2023	B	`conf`	Flexible spatial memory in children: Different reference frames on different axes. CogSci Benjamin Pitt, Sahra Aalaei, Alison Gopnik
2023	J	`jnl`	Imitation versus Innovation: What children can do that large language and language-and-vision models cannot (yet)? CoRR Eunice Yiu, Eliza Kosoy, Alison Gopnik
2023	B	`conf`	Towards Understanding How Machines Can Learn Causal Overhypotheses. CogSci 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
2022	—	`ch.`	Causal Models and Cognitive Development. Probabilistic and Causal Inference Alison Gopnik
2022	—	`conf`	Learning Causal Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models. CLeaR 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
2022	B	`conf`	Learning Causal Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models. CogSci Eliza Kosoy, Adrian Liu, Jasmine Collins, David M. Chan, Jessica B. Hamrick, Sandy Han Huang, Nan Rosemary Ke, Bryanna Kaufmann, Alison Gopnik
2022	J	`jnl`	Learning Causal Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models. CoRR 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
2022	B	`conf`	Preschoolers and adults make inferences from novel metaphors. CogSci Rebecca Zhu, Alison Gopnik
2022	B	`conf`	Three-Dimensional Object Completion in Humans and Computational Models. CogSci Eunice Yiu, Jasmine Collins, Alison Gopnik
2022	J	`jnl`	Towards Understanding How Machines Can Learn Causal Overhypotheses. CoRR 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
2021	B	`conf`	"It Depends": How Children Reason about Stable and Unstable Causes. CogSci Nadya Vasilyeva, Mei Murphy, Oce Bohra, Jenny Chen, Selena Xandra Cuevas, Samhita Katteri, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik
2021	Misc	`conf`	From Robot Learning To Robot Understanding: Leveraging Causal Graphical Models For Robotics. CoRL Kaylene Caswell Stocking, Alison Gopnik, Claire J. Tomlin
2021	B	`conf`	Providing explanations shifts preschoolers' metaphor preferences. CogSci Rebecca Zhu, Mariel K. Goddu, Alison Gopnik
2021	B	`conf`	The Omniglot Jr. challenge; Can a model achieve child-level character generation and classification? CogSci Eliza Kosoy, Masha Belyi, Charlie Snell, Brenden M. Lake, Josh Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik
2020	B	`conf`	4- and 5-Year-Olds' Comprehension of Functional Metaphors. CogSci Rebecca Zhu, Mariel K. Goddu, Alison Gopnik
2020	B	`conf`	Exploring Exploration: Comparing Children with Agents in Unified Exploration Environments. CogSci Eliza Kosoy, Jasmine Collins, David M. Chan, Deepak Pathak, Pulkit Agrawal, Alison Gopnik
2020	J	`jnl`	Exploring Exploration: Comparing Children with RL Agents in Unified Environments. CoRR Eliza Kosoy, Jasmine Collins, David M. Chan, Jessica B. Hamrick, Sandy H. Huang, Alison Gopnik, John F. Canny
2020	B	`conf`	The Development of Creative Search Strategies. CogSci Yuval Hart, Eliza Kosoy, Emily Liquin, Julia A. Leonard, Allyson Mackey, Alison Gopnik
2020	B	`conf`	The Origins of Common Sense in Humans and Machines. CogSci Kevin Smith, Eliza Kosoy, Alison Gopnik, Deepak Pathak, Alan Fern, Josh Tenenbaum, Tomer D. Ullman
2020	B	`conf`	Toddlers and preschoolers use relational concepts to solve problems. CogSci Mariel K. Goddu, Alison Gopnik
2020	J	`jnl`	What Does "Mind-Wandering" Mean to the Folk? An Empirical Investigation. Cogn. Sci. Zachary C. Irving, Aaron Glasser, Alison Gopnik, Verity Pinter, Chandra Sripada
2020	B	`conf`	When Generic Language does not Promote Psychological Essentialism. CogSci Nadya Vasilyeva, Alison Gopnik, Tania Lombrozo
2020	B	`conf`	When and how do toddlers in rural Western Kenya understand the referential nature of pictures? CogSci Rebecca Zhu, Helen Pitchik, Lia Fernald, Alison Gopnik
2019	B	`conf`	Curiouser and Curiouser: Children's intrinsic exploration of mazes and its effects on reaching a goal. CogSci Eliza Kosoy, Deepak Pathak, Pulkit Agrawal, Alison Gopnik
2019	J	`jnl`	Sticking to the Evidence? A Behavioral and Computational Case Study of Micro-Theory Change in the Domain of Magnetism. Cogn. Sci. Elizabeth Bonawitz, Tomer D. Ullman, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
2018	A*	`conf`	Evaluating Theory of Mind in Question Answering. EMNLP Aida Nematzadeh, Kaylee Burns, Erin Grant, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths
2018	J	`jnl`	Evaluating Theory of Mind in Question Answering. CoRR Aida Nematzadeh, Kaylee Burns, Erin Grant, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths
2018	—	`conf`	Exploiting Attention to Reveal Shortcomings in Memory Models. BlackboxNLP@EMNLP Kaylee Burns, Aida Nematzadeh, Erin Grant, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths
2018	B	`conf`	Identifying the structure of hypotheses that guide search during development. CogSci Doug Markant, Angela Jones, Thorsten Pachur, Alison Gopnik, Azzurra Ruggeri
2018	B	`conf`	Models of Human Scientific Discovery. CogSci Robert L. Goldstone, Alison Gopnik, Paul Thagard, Tomer D. Ullman
2018	B	`conf`	Preschoolers adapt their exploratory strategies to the information structure of the task. CogSci Nora Swaboda, Azzurra Ruggeri, Alison Gopnik
2018	B	`conf`	Workshop Understanding Exploration-Exploitation Trade-offs. CogSci Elizabeth Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik, Celeste Kidd
2017	B	`conf`	Desires influence 4- to 6-year-old children's probabilistic judgments. CogSci Adrienne Wente, Mariel K. Goddu, Elyanah Posner, Teresa Garcia, María Fernández Flecha, Alison Gopnik
2017	B	`conf`	I know what you need to know: Children's developing theory of mind and pedagogical evidence selection. CogSci Ilona Bass, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto, Dhaya Ramarajan, Alison Gopnik, Henry Wellman
2017	B	`conf`	More than meets the eye: Early relational reasoning cannot be reduced to perceptual heuristics. CogSci Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik
2017	B	`conf`	The Development of Structural Thinking about Social Categories. CogSci Nadya Vasilyeva, Alison Gopnik, Tania Lombrozo
2016	B	`conf`	The Relationship Between Inhibitory Control and Free Will Beliefs in 4-to 6-Year-Old-Children. CogSci Adrienne Wente, Titus Ting, Rosie Aboody, Tamar Kushnir, Alison Gopnik
2016	J	`jnl`	Which Counterfactuals Matter? A Response to Beck. Cogn. Sci. Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Alison Gopnik
2015	B	`conf`	Culture, causal attributions, and development: A comparison of Chinese and U.S. 4-and 6-year-olds. CogSci Adrienne Wente, Sophie Bridgers, Xin Zhao, Yixin Cui, Elizabeth Seiver, Zhanxing Li, Liqi Zhu, Alison Gopnik
2015	B	`conf`	Learning to reason about desires: An infant training study. CogSci Tiffany Doan, Stephanie Denison, Christopher G. Lucas, Alison Gopnik
2015	B	`conf`	The early emergence and puzzling decline of relational reasoning: Effects of prior knowledge and search on inferring 'same' and 'different'. CogSci Caren M. Walker, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik
2014	B	`conf`	Cultural variability in young children's folk intuitions of free will. CogSci Adrienne Wente, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik, Xin Zhao, Liqi Zhu, Elizabeth Seiver
2014	B	`conf`	Language acquisition and the onset of relational reasoning in infants. CogSci Caren M. Walker, Samantha Hubachek, Alison Gopnik
2013	B	`conf`	24-Month-Olds Engage in Relational Causal Reasoning. CogSci Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik
2013	B	`conf`	Explaining to Others Prompts Children to Favor Inductively Rich Properties. CogSci Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo, Cristine H. Legare, Alison Gopnik
2013	J	`jnl`	Pretense, Counterfactuals, and Bayesian Causal Models: Why What Is Not Real Really Matters. Cogn. Sci. Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Alison Gopnik
2013	B	`conf`	What if? Counterfactual reasoning, pretense, and the role of possible worlds. CogSci Daphna Buchsbaum, Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik, Nick Chater, David Danks, Christopher G. Lucas, Charles Kemp, Eva Rafetseder, Josef Perner
2012	B	`conf`	Children's Causal Learning from Fiction: Assessing the Proximity Between Real and Fictional Worlds. CogSci Caren M. Walker, Patricia Ganea, Alison Gopnik
2012	B	`conf`	Do I know that you know what you know? Modeling testimony in causal inference. CogSci Daphna Buchsbaum, Sophie Bridgers, Andrew Whalen, Elizabeth Seiver, Thomas L. Griffiths, Alison Gopnik
2012	B	`conf`	Explaining Influences Children's Reliance on Evidence and Prior Knowledge in Causal Induction. CogSci Caren M. Walker, Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik
2012	B	`conf`	Is that your final answer? The effects of neutral queries on children's choices. CogSci Aaron Gonzalez, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik
2012	B	`conf`	Seeing who sees: Contrastive access helps children reason about other minds. CogSci Kathie Pham, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik
2012	—	`conf`	Sticking to the Evidence? A computational and behavioral case study of micro-theory change in the domain of magnetism. ICDL-EPIROB Elizabeth Bonawitz, Tomer D. Ullman, Alison Gopnik, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
2011	B	`conf`	A Simple Sequential Algorithm for Approximating Bayesian Inference. CogSci Elizabeth Bonawitz, Stephanie Denison, Annie Chen, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths
2011	J	`jnl`	Bayes and Blickets: Effects of Knowledge on Causal Induction in Children and Adults. Cogn. Sci. Thomas L. Griffiths, David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik
2011	B	`conf`	Cross-domain variation in children's causal reasoning. CogSci Elizabeth Seiver, Alison Gopnik
2010	J	`jnl`	Inferring Hidden Causal Structure. Cogn. Sci. Tamar Kushnir, Alison Gopnik, Christopher G. Lucas, Laura Schulz
2004	J	`jnl`	Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers. Cogn. Sci. David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik
1998	J	`jnl`	Explanation as Orgasm. Minds Mach. Alison Gopnik
1990	—	`conf`	Relations between thought and language in infancy. ICSLP Andrew N. Meltzoff, Alison Gopnik