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| Chang, M. B., Gupta, A., Levine, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (preprint). Automatically composing representation transformations as a means for generalization. Neural Abstract Machines and Program Induction Workshop, International Conference on Machine Learning 2018. (link)
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| Lieder, F., Chen, O., & Griffiths, T. L. (preprint). Cognitive prostheses for goal achievement. (link)
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| Reichman, D., Lieder, F., Bourgin, D. D., Talmon, N., & Griffiths, T. L. (preprint). Goal pursuit for computationally bounded agents: The network structure of goal systems predicts human performance. (link)
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| Milli, S., Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (preprint). A rational reinterpretation of dual process theories. (link)
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| Lieder, F., Callaway, F., Gul, S., Krueger, P. M., & Griffiths, T. L. (preprint). Learning to select computations. NIPS workshop on cognitively inspired Artificial Intelligence. (link)
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| Alon, N., Cohen, J. D., Dey, B., Griffiths, T. L., Musslick, S., Ozcimder, K., Reichman, D., Shinkar, I., & Wagner, T. (preprint). A graph-theoretic approach to multitasking. (link)
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| Battleday, R. M., Peterson, J. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (preprint). Modeling human categorization of natural images using deep feature representations. (link)
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| Meylan, S. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (preprint). Word forms- not just their lengths- are optimized for efficient communication. (link)
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| Dubey, R., Agrawal, P., Pathak, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Efros, A. A. (preprint). Investigating human priors for playing video games. In Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2018). (link)(project website)
| In Press
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| Peterson, J. C., Abbott, J. T., & Griffiths, T. L. (in press). Evaluating (and improving) the correspondence between deep neural networks and human representations. Cognitive Science. (pdf)
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| Grant, E., Finn, C., Levine, S., Darrell, T., & Griffiths, T. L. (in press). Recasting gradient-based meta-learning as hierarchical Bayes. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). (link)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Daniels, D., Austerweil, J. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (in press). Subjective randomness as statistical inference. Cognitive Psychology. (pdf)
| 2018
| | Suchow, J. W., Peterson, J. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (2018). Learning a face space for experiments on human identity. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
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| Krueger, P. M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2018). Shaping model-free habits with model-based goals. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Bourgin, D. D., Abbott, J. T., & Griffiths, T. L. (2018). Recommendation as generalization: Evaluating cognitive models in the wild. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Krafft, P. M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2018). Levels of analysis in computational social science. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Sanborn, S., Bourgin, D. D., Chang, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2018). Representational efficiency outweighs action efficiency in human program induction. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Peterson, J. C., Suchow, J. W., Aghi, K., Ku, A. Y., & Griffiths, T. L. (2018). Capturing human category representations by sampling in deep feature spaces. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Peterson, J. C., Soulos, P., Nematzadeh, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2018). Learning hierarchical visual representations in deep neural networks using hierarchical linguistic labels. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Jansen, R. A., Rafferty, A. N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2018). Modeling the Dunning-Kruger Effect: A rational account of inaccurate self assessment. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Gates, M. A., Veuthey, T. L., Tessler, M. H., Smith, K. A., Gerstenberg, T., Bayet, L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2018). Tiptoeing around it: Inference from absence in potentially offensive speech. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Callaway, F., Lieder, F., Das, P., Gul, S., Krueger, P. M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2018). A resource-rational analysis of human planning. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Lieder, F., Shenhav, A., Musslick, S., & Griffiths, T.L. (2018). Rational metareasoning and the plasticity of cognitive control. PLoS Computational Biology. (pdf)
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| Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L., Huys, Q. J. M., & Goodman, N. D. (2018). Empirical evidence for resource-rational anchoring and adjustment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. (pdf)
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| Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L., Huys, Q. J. M., & Goodman, N. D. (2018). The anchoring bias reflects rational use of cognitive resources. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. (pdf)
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| Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L., & Hsu, M (2018). Over-representation of extreme events in decision making reflects rational use of cognitive resources. Psychological Review, 125(1), 1-32. (pdf)
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| Whalen, A., Griffiths, T. L., & Buchsbaum, D. (2018). Sensitivity to shared information in social learning. Cognitive Science, 42(1), 168-187. (pdf)
| 2017
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| de Heer, W. A., Huth, A. G., Griffiths, T. L., Gallant, J. L., & Theunissen, F. E. (2017). The hierarchical cortical organization of human speech processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(27), 6539-6557. (pdf)
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| Fisac, J. F., Gates, M. A., Hamrick, J. B., Liu, C., Hadfield-Menell, D., Palaniappan, M., Malik, D., Sastry, S. S., Griffiths, T. L., & Dragan, A. D. (2017). Pragmatic-Pedagogic Value Alignment. International Symposium on Robotics Research. (pdf)
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| Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Strategy selection as rational metareasoning. Psychological Review, 124(6), 762-794. (pdf)
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| Paxton, A., & Griffiths, T. L.(2017). Finding the traces of behavioral and cognitive processes in big data and naturally occurring datasets. Behavior Research Methods, 49(5), 1630-1638.(pdf)
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| Suchow, J. W., Bourgin, D. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Evolution in mind: Evolutionary dynamics, cognitive processes, and Bayesian inference. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(7), 522-530. (pdf)
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| Gopnik, A., O'Grady, S., Lucas, C. G., Griffiths, T. L., Wente, A., Bridgers, S., Aboody, R., Fung, H., & Dahl, R. E. (2017). Changes in cognitive flexibility and hypothesis search across human life history from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(30), 7892-7899. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Formalizing prior knowledge in causal induction. The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (book)
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| Meng, Y., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2017). Inferring intentional agents from violation of randomness. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Langlois, T. A., Jacoby, N., Suchow, J. W., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Uncovering visual priors in spatial memory using serial reproduction. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Bourgin, D. D., Lieder, F., Reichman, D., Talmon, N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). The structure of goal systems predicts human performance. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Dubey, R., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). A rational analysis of curiosity. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Grant, E., Nematzadeh, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). How can memory-augmented neural networks pass a false-belief task? Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Nematzadeh, A., Meylan, S. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Evaluating vector-space models of word representation, or the unreasonable effectiveness of counting words near other words. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Jansen, R. A., Rafferty, A. N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Algebra is not like trivia: Evaluating self-assessment in an online math tutor. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Krueger, P. M., Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Enhancing metacognitive reinforcement learning using reward structures and feedback. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Lieder, F., Krueger, P. M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). An automatic method for discovering rational heuristics for risky choice. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Callaway, F., Hamrick, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Discovering simple heuristics from mental simulation. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Chen, D., Peterson, J. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Evaluating vector-space models of analogy. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Gates, M. A., Suchow, J. W., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Empirical tests of large-scale collaborative recall. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Peterson, J. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Evidence for the size principle in semantic and perceptual domains. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Bramley, N. R., Dayan, P., Griffiths, T. L., & Lagnado, D. A. (2017). Formalizing Neuraths Ship: Approximate algorithms for online causal learning. Psychological Review, 124(3), 301-338. (pdf)
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| Austerweil, J. L., Griffiths, T. L., & Palmer, S. E. (2017). Learning to be (in) variant: Combining prior knowledge and experience to infer orientation invariance in object recognition. Cognitive Science,41(S5), 1183-1201. (pdf)
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| Milli, S., Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017) When Does Bounded-Optimal Metareasoning Favor Few Cognitive Systems? Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (pdf)
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| Shenhav, A., Musslick, S., Lieder, F., Kool, W., Griffiths, T. L., Cohen, J. D., & Botvinick, M. M. (2017). Toward a rational and mechanistic account of mental effort. Annual Review of Neuroscience.(pdf)
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| Whalen, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Adding population structure to models of language evolution by iterated learning. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 76, 1-6. (pdf)
| 2016
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| Fisac, J. F., Liu, C., Hamrick, J. B., Sastry, S., Hedrick, J. K., Griffiths, T. L., & Dragan, A. D. (2016). Generating plans that predict themselves. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR 2016). (pdf)
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| Hamrick, J. B., Battaglia, P. W., Griffiths, T. L., Tenenbaum, J. B. (2016). Inferring mass in complex scenes by mental simulation. Cognition, 157, 61-76. (pdf)
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| Ruggeri, A., Lombrozo, T., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2016). Sources of developmental change in the efficiency of information search. Developmental Psychology, 52, 2159-2173. (pdf)
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| Suchow, J. W., & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Rethinking experiment design as algorithm design. CrowdML – NIPS '16 Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning. (pdf)
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| Hsu, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Sampling assumptions affect use of indirect negative evidence in language learning PLOS One, 11(6). (pdf)
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| Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Helping people make better decisions using optimal gamification Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Rafferty, A. N., Jansen, R. A, & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Using inverse planning for personalized feedback. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 472-477. (pdf)
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| Abbott, J. T., Griffiths, T. L., & Regier, T. (2016). Focal colors across languages are representative members of color categories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(40), 11178-11183. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Abbott, J. T., & Hsu, A. S. (2016). Exploring human cognition using large image databases. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8(3), 569-588. (pdf)
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| O'Grady, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2016). Do simple probability judgements rely on integer approximation? Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Foushee, R., Griffiths, T. L., & Srinivasan, M. (2016). Lexical complexity of child-directed and overheard speech: Implications for learning. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Suchow, J. W., Pacer, M. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Design from Zeroth Principles. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Suchow, J. W., & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Deciding to remember: Memory maintenance as a Markov Decision Process. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Peterson, J., Abbott, J. T., & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Adapting deep network features to capture psychological representations. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf) (Winner of the Computational Modeling Prize in Perception/Action)
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| Cibelli, E., Xu, Y., Austerweil, J. L., Griffiths, T. L., & Regier, T. (2016). The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and probabilistic inference: Evidence from the domain of color. PLOS One, 11(7). (pdf)
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| Liu, C., Hamrick, J. B., Fisac, J. F., Dragan, A. D, Hendrick, J. K., Sastry, S. S, & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Goal inference improves objective and perceived performance in human-robot collaboration. Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems. (pdf)
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| Huth, A. G., de Heer, W. A., Griffiths, T. L., Theunissen, F. E., & Gallant, J. L. (2016). Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile the human cerebral cortex. Nature, 532 453-458. (pdf)
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| Eaves Jr, B. S., Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., & Shafto, P. (2016). Infant-directed speech is consistent with teaching. Psychological Review (pdf)
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| Hsu, A. S., Horng, A., Griffiths, T. L., & Chater, N. (2016). When absence of evidence is evidence of absence: Rational inferences from absent data. Cognitive Science, 1-13. (pdf)
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| Bridgers, S., Buchsbaum, D., Seiver, E., Griffiths, T. L., & Gopnik, A. (2016). Children's causal inferences from conflicting testimony and observations. Developmental Psychology. (pdf)
| 2015
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| Hu, J., Lucas, C. G., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2015). Preschoolers' understanding of graded preferences. Cognitive Development, 36, 93-102. (pdf)
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| Rafferty, A. N., Brunskill, E., Griffiths, T. L., & Shafto, P. (2015). Faster teaching via POMDP planning. Cognitive Science. (pdf)
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| Sanborn, A. N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). Exploring the structure of mental representations by implementing computer algorithms with people. In Raaijmakers, J. G. W., Criss, A. H., Goldstone, R. L., Nosofsky, R. M., & Steyvers, M. (Eds.). Cognitive Modeling in Perception and Memory: A Festschrift for Richard M. Shiffrin. New York: Psychology Press. (pdf)
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| Rafferty, A. N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). Interpreting freeform equation solving. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. (pdf)
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| Hamrick, J., Smith, K. A., Griffiths, T. L., & Vul, E. (2015). Think again? The amount of mental simulation tracks uncertainty in the outcome. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pdf)
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| Hu, J., Whalen, A., Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2015). Can children balance the size of a majority with the quality of their information? Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). When to use which heuristic: A rational solution to the strategy selection problem. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Lieder, F., Sim, Z., Hu, J. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). Children and adults differ in their strategies for social learning. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Meylan, S. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). A Bayesian framework for learning words from multiword utterances. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Morgan, T. J. H, & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). What the Baldwin Effect affects. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Pacer, M. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). Upsetting the contingency table: Causal induction over sequences of point events. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Ruggeri, A., Lombrozo, T., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2015). Children search for information as efficiently as adults, but seek additional confirmatory evidence. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Abbott, J. T., Austerweil, J. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). Random walks on semantic networks can resemble optimal foraging. Psychological Review, 122, 558-569. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Lieder, F., & Goodman, N. D. (2015). Rational use of cognitive resources: Levels of analysis between the computational and the algorithmic. Topics in Cognitive Science, 7, 217-229. (pdf)
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| Rafferty, A. N., LaMar, M. M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). Inferring learners' knowledge from their actions. Cognitive Science, 39, 584-618. (pdf)
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| Goodman, N. D., Frank, M. C., Griffiths, T. L., Tenenbaum, J. B., Battaglia, P., & Hamrick, J. B. (2015). Relevant and robust. A response to Marcus and Davis. Psychological Science, 26, 539-541. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L. (2015). Manifesto for a new (computational) cognitive revolution. Cognition, 135, 21-23. (pdf)
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| Gopnik, A., Griffiths, T. L., & Lucas, C. G. (2015). When younger learners can be better (or at least more open-minded) than older ones. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24, 87-92. (pdf)
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| Lucas, C. G., Griffiths, T. L., Williams, J. J., & Kalish, M. L. (2015). A rational model of function learning. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. (pdf)
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| Yeung, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). Identifying expectations about the strength of causal relationships. Cognitive Psychology, 76, 1-29. (pdf)
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| Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., Plunkett, D., Gopnik, A., & Baldwin, D. (2015). Inferring action structure and causal relationships in continuous sequences of human action. Cognitive Psychology, 76, 30-77. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L. (2015). Revealing ontological commitments by magic. Cognition, 136, 43-48. (pdf)
| 2014
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| Lieder, F., Plunkett, D., Hamrick, J. B., Russell, S. J., Hay, N. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). Algorithm selection by rational metareasoning as a model of human strategy selection. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 27. (pdf)
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| Rafferty, A. N., Griffiths, T. L., & Klein, D. (2014). Analyzing the rate at which languages lose the influence of a common ancestor. Cognitive Science, 38, 1406-1431. (pdf)
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| Maurits, L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). Tracing the roots of syntax with Bayesian phylogenetics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 13576-13581. (pdf)
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| Bonawitz, E., Denison, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Gopnik, A. (2014). Probabilistic models, learning algorithms, and response variability: Sampling in cognitive development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18, 497-500. (pdf)
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| Bertolero, M. A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). Is holism a problem for inductive inference? A computational analysis. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Bourgin, D. D., Abbott, J. T., Griffiths, T. L., Smith, K. A., & Vul, E. (2014). Empirical evidence for Markov chain Monte Carlo in memory search. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Hamrick, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). What to simulate? Inferring the right direction for mental rotation. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Lieder, F., Hsu, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). The high availability of extreme events serves resource-rational decision-making. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Neumann, R., Rafferty, A. N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). A bounded rationality account of wishful thinking. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Press, A., Pacer, M., Griffiths, T. L., & Christian, B. (2014). Caching algorithms and rational models of memory. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Whalen, A., Maurits, L., Pacer, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). Cultural evolution with sparse testimony: When does the cultural ratchet slip? Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Kirby, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Smith, K. (2014). Iterated learning and the evolution of language. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 28, 108-114. (pdf)
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| Bonawitz, E., Denison, S., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). Win-stay, lose-sample,: A simple sequential algorithm for approximating Bayesian inference. Cognitive Psychology, 74, 35-65. (pdf)
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| Vul, E., Goodman, N. D., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). One and done? Optimal decisions from very few samples. Cognitive Science, 38, 599-637. (pdf)
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| Canini, K. R., Griffiths, T. L., Vanpaemel, W., & Kalish, M. L. (2014). Revealing human inductive biases for category learning by simulating cultural transmission. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 785-793. (pdf)
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| Lucas, C. G., Bridgers, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Gopnik, A. (2014). When children are better (or at least more open-minded) learners than adults: Developmental differences in learning the forms of causal relationships. Cognition, 131, 284-299. (pdf)
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| Rafferty, A. N., Zaharia, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). Optimally designing games for behavioural research. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series A, 470. (pdf)
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| Lucas, C. G., Griffiths, T. L., Xu, F., Fawcett, C., Gopnik, A., Kushnir, T., Markson, L., & Hu, J. (2014). The child as econometrician: A rational model of preference understanding in children. PLOS One, 9(3), e92160. (pdf)
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| Shafto, P., Goodman, N. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). A rational account of pedagogical reasoning: Teaching by, and learning from, examples. Cognitive Psychology, 71, 55-89. (pdf)
| 2013
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| Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., Goldwater, S., & Morgan, J. (2013). A role for the developing lexicon in phonetic category acquisition. Psychological Review, 120, 751-778. (pdf)
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| Rafferty, A. N., Griffiths, T. L., & Ettlinger, M. (2013). Greater learnability is not sufficient to produce cultural universals. Cognition, 129, 70-87. (pdf)
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| Williams, J. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2013). Why are people bad at detecting randomness? A statistical argument. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 39, 1473-1490. (pdf)
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| Jia, Y., Abbott, J. T., Austerweil, J. L., Griffiths, T. L., & Darrell, T. (2013). Visual concept learning: Combining machine vision and Bayesian generalization on concept hierarchies. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 26. (pdf)
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| Austerweil, J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2013). A nonparametric Bayesian framework for constructing flexible feature representations. Psychological Review, 120, 817-851. (pdf)
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| Feldman, N. H., Myers, E. B., White, K. S., Griffiths, T. L., & Morgan, J. L. (2013). Word-level information influences phonetic learning in adults and infants. Cognition, 127, 427-438. (pdf)
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| Sanborn, A. N., Mansinghka, V. K., & Griffiths, T. L. (2013). Reconciling intuitive physics and Newtonian mechanics for colliding objects. Psychological Review, 120, 411-437. (pdf)
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| Schlerf, J., Xu, J., Klemfuss, N., Griffiths, T. L., & Ivry, R. B. (2013). Individuals with cerebellar degeneration show similar adaptation deficits with large and small visuomotor errors. Journal of Neurophysiology, 109, 1164-1173. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Lewandowsky, S., & Kalish, M. L. (2013). The effects of cultural transmission are modulated by the amount of information transmitted. Cognitive Science, 37, 953-967. (pdf)
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| Denison, S., Bonawitz, E., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2013). Rational variability in children's causal inferences: The Sampling Hypothesis. Cognition, 126, 285-300. (pdf)
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| Abbott, J. T., Hamrick, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2013). Approximating Bayesian inference with a sparse distributed memory system. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Hu, J.. C, Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2013). When does the majority rule? Preschoolers' trust in majority informants varies by task domain. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Whalen, A., Buchsbaum, D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2013). How do you know that? Sensitivity to statistical dependency in social learning. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Pacer, M., Williams, J., Xi, C., Lombrozo, T., & Griffiths, T. L. (2013). Evaluating computational models of explanation using human judgments. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. (pdf)
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| Xu, J., Dowman, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2013) Cultural transmission results in convergence towards colour term universals. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B. (pdf)
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| Bouchard-Cote, A., Hall, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Klein, D. (2013) Automated reconstruction of ancient languages using probabilistic models of sound change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (pdf)
| 2012
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| Abbott, J. T., Austerweil, J. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). Human memory search as a random walk in a semantic network. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 25. (pdf)
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| Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L., & Goodman, N. D. (2012). Burn-in, bias, and the rationality of anchoring. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 25. (pdf)
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| Bugnyar, T., Boyd, R., Bossan, B., Gächter, S., Griffiths, T., Hammerstein, P., Jensen, K., Mussweiler, T., Nagel, R., & Warneken, F. (2012). Evolutionary perspectives on social cognition. In P. Hammerstein & J. R. Stevens (Eds.) Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making: Toward a Darwinian Decision Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (book)
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| Bonawitz, E., Gopnik, A., Denison, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). Rational randomness: The role of sampling in an algorithmic account of preschoolers' causal learning. In F. Xu (Ed.) Rational constructivism in cognitive development. Waltham, MA: Academic Press. (book)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Kemp, C. (2012). Bayesian inference. In K. J. Holyoak & R. G. Morrison, (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (book)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Chater, N., Norris, D., & Pouget, A. (2012). How the Bayesians got their beliefs (and what those beliefs actually are). Psychological Bulletin, 138, 415-422. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Austerweil, J. L. (2012). Bayesian generalization with circular consequential regions. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 56, 281-285. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Vul, E., & Sanborn, A. N. (2012). Bridging levels of analysis for probabilistic models of cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21(4), 263-268. (pdf)
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| Buchsbaum, D., Bridgers, S., Whalen, A., Seiver, E., Griffiths, T. L., & Gopnik, A. (2012). Do I know that you know what you know? Modeling testimony in causal inference. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Hsu, A. S, Martin, J. B., Sanborn, A. N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). Identifying representations of categories of discrete items using Markov chain Monte Carlo with People. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Rafferty, A. N., Zaharia, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). Optimally Designing Games for Cognitive Science Research. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 
| Blundell, C., Sanborn, A. N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). Look-ahead Monte Carlo with people. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Little, D., Lewandowsky, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). A Bayesian model of rule induction in Raven's progressive matrices. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Austerweil, J. L., & Berthiaume, V. G. (2012). Comparing the inductive biases of simple neural networks and Bayesian models. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 

| Abbott, J. T., Regier, T., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). Predicting focal colors with a rational model of representativeness. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Abbott, J. T., Austerweil, J. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). Constructing a hypothesis space from the Web for large-scale Bayesian word learning. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Pacer, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). Elements of a rational framework for continuous-time causal induction. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Martin, J. B., Griffiths, T. L., & Sanborn, A. N. (2012). Testing the efficiency of Markov chain Monte Carlo with people using facial affect categories. Cognitive Science, 36, 150-162. (pdf)
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| Austerweil, J. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). Human feature learning. Encyclopedia of the sciences of learning. N. M. Seel, ed. New York: Springer. (book)
| 2011
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2011). Predicting the future as Bayesian inference: People combine prior knowledge with observations when estimating duration and extent. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 725-743. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Sobel, D., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Gopnik, A. (2011). Bayes and blickets: Effects of knowledge on causal induction in children and adults. Cognitive Science, 35, 1407-1455. (pdf)
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| Austerweil, J. L., Friesen, A. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). An ideal observer model for identifying the reference frame of objects. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 24. (pdf)
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| Abbott, J. T., Heller, K. A., Ghahramani, Z., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). Testing a Bayesian measure of representativeness using a large image database. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 24. (pdf)
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| Pacer, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). A rational model of causal induction with continuous causes. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 24. (pdf)
| 

| Austerweil, J. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). A rational model of the effects of distributional information on feature learning. Cognitive Psychology, 63, 173-209. (pdf)
| 

| Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., Johnson, M. (2011). Producing power-law distributions and damping word frequencies with two-stage language models. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 12, 2335-2382. (pdf)
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| Feldman, N. H., Myers, E., White, K., Griffiths, T. L., & Morgan, J. L. (2011). Learners use word-level statistics in phonetic category acquisition. Proceedings of the 35th Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pdf)
| 

| Perfors, A., Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2011). A tutorial introduction to Bayesian models of cognitive development. Cognition, 120, 302-321. (pdf)
| 

| Buchsbaum, D., Gopnik, A., Griffiths, T. L., & Shafto, P. (2011). Children's imitation of causal action sequences is influenced by statistical and pedagogical evidence. Cognition, 120, 331-340. (pdf)
| 
| Austerweil, J. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). Seeking confirmation is rational for deterministic hypotheses. Cognitive Science, 35, 499-526. (pdf)
| 
| Griffiths, T. L., & Ghahramani, Z. (2011). The Indian Buffet Process: An introduction and review. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 12, 1185-1224. (pdf)
| 

| Griffiths, T. L., & Reali, F. (2011). Modelling minds as well as populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B. (pdf)
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| Rafferty, A. N., Brunskill, E. B., Griffiths, T. L., & Shafto, P. (2011). Faster teaching by POMDP planning. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED2011). (pdf)
| 

| Canini, K. R., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). A nonparametric Bayesian model of multi-level category learning. Proceedings of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.(pdf)
| 

| Yeung, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). Estimating human priors on causal strength. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 

| Canini, K. R., Griffiths, T. L., Vanpaemel, W., & Kalish, M. L. (2011). Discovering inductive biases in categorization through iterated learning. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 

| Abbott, J. T., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). Exploring the influence of particle filter parameters on order effects in causal learning. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 
| Waisman, A. S., Lucas, C. G., Griffiths, T. L., & Jacobs, L. F. (2011). A Bayesian model of navigation in squirrels. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 

| Buchsbaum, D., Canini, K. R., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). Segmenting and recognizing human action using low-level video features. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.(pdf)
| 

| Rafferty, A. N., Griffiths, T. L., & Ettlinger, M. (2011) Exploring the relationship between learnability and linguistic universals. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics at ACL 2011. (pdf)
| 

| Bonawitz, E., Denison, S., Chen, A., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). A simple sequential algorithm for approximating Bayesian inference. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 

| Griffiths, T. L., Sanborn, A. N., Canini, K. R., Navarro, D. J., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2011). Nonparametric Bayesian models of category learning. In E. M. Pothos & A. J. W.ills (Eds.) Formal approaches in categorization. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (book)
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| Griffiths, T. L. (2011). Rethinking language: How probabilities shape the words we use. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 3825-3826. (pdf)
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| Tenenbaum, J. B., Kemp, C., Griffiths, T. L., & Goodman, N. D. (2011) How to grow a mind: Statistics, structure, and abstraction. Science, 331, 1279-1285. (pdf)
| 2010
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| Frank, M., Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2010). Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation. Cognition, 117, 107-125.(pdf)
| 


| Sanborn, A. N., Griffiths, T. L., & Navarro, D. J. (2010). Rational approximations to rational models: Alternative algorithms for category learning. Psychological Review, 117 (4), 1144-1167.(pdf)
| 


| Shi, L., Griffiths, T. L., Feldman, N. H., & Sanborn, A. N. (2010). Exemplar models as a mechanism for performing Bayesian inference. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17 (4), 443-464. (pdf)
| 


| Austerweil, J. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Learning invariant features using the Transformed Indian Buffet Process. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23. (pdf)
| 
| Hsu, A., Griffiths, T. L., & Schreiber, E. (2010). Subjective randomness and natural scene statistics. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 624-629. (pdf)
| 
| Griffiths, T. L., Chater, N., Kemp, C., Perfors, A., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2010). Probabilistic models of cognition: Exploring representations and inductive biases. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14, 357-364. (pdf)
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| Xu, J., Griffiths, T. L., & Dowman, M. (2010). Replicating color term universals through human iterated learning. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Hsu, A. S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Effects of generative and discriminative learning on use of category variability. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Rafferty, A. N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Optimal language learning: The importance of starting representative. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Buchsbaum, D., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Children's imitation of action sequences is influenced by statistical evidence and inferred causal structure. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 


| Bonawitz, E. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Deconfounding hypothesis generation and evaluation in Bayesian models. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Denison, S., Bonawitz, E. B., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Preschoolers sample from probability distributions. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Austerweil, J. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Learning hypothesis spaces and dimensions through concept learning. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Lucas, C. G., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Developmental differences in learning the forms of causal relationships. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 
| Canini, K. R., Shashkov, M. M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Modeling transfer learning in human categorization with the hierarchical Dirichlet process. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Machine Learning. (pdf)
| 
| Rosen-Zvi, M., Chemudugunta, C., Griffiths, T. L., Smyth, P., & Steyvers, M. (2010). Learning author-topic models from text corpora. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 28(1), Article 4. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Bayesian models as tools for exploring inductive biases. In M. Banich & D. Caccamise (Eds.) Generalization of knowledge: Multidisciplinary perspectives. New York: Psychology Press.
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| Burkett, D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Iterated learning of multiple languages from multiple teachers. Evolang 8. (pdf)
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| Blei, D. M., Griffiths, T. L., & Jordan, M. I. (2010). The nested Chinese restaurant process and Bayesian nonparametric inference of topic hierarchies. Journal of the ACM, 57, 1-30.(pdf)
| 

| Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Words as alleles: Connecting language evolution with Bayesian learners to models of genetic drift. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, 277, 429-436. (pdf)
| 

| Kemp, C., Tenenbaum, J. B., Niyogi, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). A probabilistic model of theory formation. Cognition, 114, 165-196. (pdf)
| 
| Lucas, C. G., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Learning the form of causal relationships using hierarchical Bayesian models. Cognitive Science, 34, 113-147. (pdf)
| 

| Xu, J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). A rational analysis of the effects of memory biases on serial reproduction. Cognitive Psychology, 60, 107-126. (pdf)
| 


| Sanborn, A. N., Griffiths, T. L., & Shiffrin, R. (2010). Uncovering mental representations with Markov chain Monte Carlo. Cognitive Psychology, 60, 63-106. (pdf)
| 2009
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| Hsu, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). Differential use of implicit negative evidence in generative and discriminative language learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22. (pdf)
| 
| Miller, K. T, Griffiths, T. L., & Jordan, M. I. (2009). Nonparametric latent feature models for link prediction. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22. (pdf)
| 

| Shi, L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). Neural implementation of hierarchical Bayesian inference by importance sampling. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22. (pdf)
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| Lewandowsky, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Kalish, M. L. (2009). The wisdom of individuals: Exploring peoples knowledge about everyday events using iterated learning. Cognitive Science, 33, 969-998. (pdf)
| 


| Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., & Morgan, J. L. (2009). The influence of categories on perception: Explaining the perceptual magnet effect as optimal statistical inference. Psychological Review, 116, 752-782. (pdf)
| 

| Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2009). Theory-based causal induction. Psychological Review, 116, 661-716. (pdf)
| 
| Jaeger, H., Baronchelli, A., Briscoe, T., Christiansen, M. H., Griffiths, T. L., Jager, G., Kirby, S., Komarova, N. L., Richerson, P. J., Steels, L., & Triesch, J (2009). What can mathematical, computational and robotic models tell us about the origins of syntax? In D. Bickerton & E. Szathmary (Eds.) Biological foundations and origins of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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| Griffiths, T. L. (2009). Connecting human and machine learning via probabilistic models of cognition. InterSpeech 2009. (pdf)
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| Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Johnson, M. (2009). A Bayesian framework for word segmentation: Exploring the effects of context. Cognition, 112, 21-54. (pdf)
| 

| Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). The evolution of linguistic frequency distributions: Relating regularization to inductive biases through iterated learning. Cognition, 111, 317-328. (pdf)
| 
| Sanborn, A. N., Mansinghka, V. K., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). A Bayesian framework for modeling intuitive dynamics. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 

| Vul, E., Goodman, N. D., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2009). One and done? Optimal decisions from very few samples. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Austerweil, J. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). The effect of distributional information on feature learning. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 
| Beppu, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). Iterated learning and the cultural ratchet. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., Gopnik, A., & Baldwin, D. (2009). Learning from actions and their consequences: Inferring causal variables from continuous sequences of human action. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., & Morgan, J. L. (2009). Learning phonetic categories by learning a lexicon. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 
| Rafferty, A., Griffiths, T. L., & Klein, D. (2009). Convergence bounds for language evolution by iterated learning. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 

| Bouchard-Cote, A., Griffiths, T. L., & Klein, D. (2009). Improved reconstruction of protolanguage word forms. Proceedings of the North American Conference on Computational Linguistics (NAACL'09). (pdf)
| 
| Canini, K. R., Shi, L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). Online inference of topics with Latent Dirichlet Allocation. AISTATS. (pdf)
| 

| Lucas, C., Griffiths, T. L., Xu, F., & Fawcett, C. (2009). A rational model of preference learning and choice prediction by children. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21. (pdf)
| 

| Griffiths, T. L., Lucas, C., Williams, J. J., & Kalish, M. L. (2009). Modeling human function learning with Gaussian processes. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21. (pdf)
| 

| Levy, R., Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). Modeling the effects of memory on human online sentence processing with particle filters. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21. (pdf)
| 

| Xu, J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). How memory biases affect information transmission: A rational analysis of serial reproduction. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21. (pdf)
| 


| Austerweil, J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). Analyzing human feature learning as nonparametric Bayesian inference. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21. (pdf)
| 2008
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| Dowman, M., Savova, V., Griffiths, T. L., Kording, K. P., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Purver, M. (2008). A probabilistic model of meetings that combines words and discourse features. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 16, 1238-1248. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Kalish, M. L., & Lewandowsky, S. (2008). Theoretical and experimental evidence for the impact of inductive biases on cultural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 363, 3503-3514. (pdf)
| 
| Smith, K., Kalish, M. L., Griffiths, T. L., & Lewandowsky, S. (2008). Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 363, 3469-3476. (pdf)
| 
| Miller, K. T, Griffiths, T. L., & Jordan, M. I. (2008). The phylogenetic Indian buffet process: A non-exchangeable nonparametric prior for latent features.Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2008). (pdf)
| 

| Austerweil, J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). A rational analysis of confirmation with deterministic hypotheses. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 

| Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). The evolution of frequency distributions: Relating regularization to inductive biases through iterated learning. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 

| Shi, L., Feldman, N. H., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). Performing Bayesian inference with exemplar models. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Williams, J. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). Why are people bad at detecting randomness? Because it is hard. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 

| Xu, J., Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). A formal analysis of cultural evolution by replacement. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Sanborn, A. N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). Markov chain Monte Carlo with people. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20. (pdf) (winner of the Outstanding Student Paper prize)
| 

| Bouchard-Cote, A., Liang, P., Griffiths, T. L., & Klein, D. (2008). A probabilistic approach to language change. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20. (pdf)
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| Navarro, D. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). Latent features in similarity judgment: A nonparametric Bayesian approach. Neural Computation, 20, 2597-2628.(pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Christian, B. R., & Kalish, M. L. (2008). Using category structures to test iterated learning as a method for revealing inductive biases. Cognitive Science, 32, 68-107. (pdf)
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| Goodman, N. D., Tenenbaum, J. B., Feldman, J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). A rational analysis of rule-based concept learning. Cognitive Science, 32, 108-154. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Sanborn, A. N., Canini, K. R., & Navarro, D. J. (2008). Categorization as nonparametric Bayesian density estimation. In M. Oaksford and N. Chater (Eds.). The probabilistic mind: Prospects for rational models of cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pdf)
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| Goodman, N. D., Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T. L., & Feldman, J. (2008). Compositionality in rational analysis: Grammar-based induction for concept learning. In M. Oaksford and N. Chater (Eds.). The probabilistic mind: Prospects for rational models of cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pdf)
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| Steyvers, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). Rational analysis as a link between human memory and information retrieval. In M. Oaksford and N. Chater (Eds.). The probabilistic mind: Prospects for rational models of cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pdf)
| 
| Griffiths, T. L., & Yuille, A. (2008). A primer on probabilistic inference. In M. Oaksford and N. Chater (Eds.). The probabilistic mind: Prospects for rational models of cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Kemp, C., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2008). Bayesian models of cognition. In Ron Sun (ed.), The Cambridge handbook of computational cognitive modeling. Cambridge University Press. (pdf)
| 2007
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| Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., & Firl, A. (2007). Google and the mind: Predicting fluency with PageRank. Psychological Science, 18, 1069-1076. (pdf)
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| Iwata, T., Saito, K., Ueda, N., Stromsten, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). Parametric embedding for class visualization. Neural Computation, 19, 2536-2556. (pdf)
| 

| Schulz, L. E., Bonawitz, E. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). Can being scared make your tummy ache? Naive theories, ambiguous evidence and preschoolers' causal inferences. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1124-1139. (pdf)
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| Bouchard, A., Liang, P., Griffiths, T., & Klein, D. (2007). A probabilistic approach to diachronic phonology. Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL). (pdf)
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| Frank, M. C., Goldwater, S., Mansinghka, V., Griffiths, T., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 
| Goodman, N. D., Griffiths, T. L., Feldman, J., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). A rational analysis of rule-based concept learning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Canini, K. R., Sanborn, A. N., & Navarro, D. J (2007) Unifying rational models of categorization via the hierarchical Dirichlet process. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 

| Feldman, N. H., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). A rational account of the perceptual magnet effect. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 
| Schreiber, E., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007) Subjective randomness and natural scene statistics. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 
| Wood, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). Particle filtering for nonparametric Bayesian matrix factorization. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19. (pdf)
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| Johnson, M., Griffiths, T. L., & Goldwater, S (2007). Adaptor grammars: A framework for specifying compositional nonparametric Bayesian models. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19. (pdf)
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| Navarro, D. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). A nonparametric Bayesian method for inferring features from similarity judgments. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Kalish, M. L. (2007). Language evolution by iterated learning with Bayesian agents. Cognitive Science, 31, 441-480. (pdf)
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| Kalish, M. L., Griffiths, T. L., & Lewandowsky, S. (2007). Iterated learning: Intergenerational knowledge transmission reveals inductive biases. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 288-294. (pdf)
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| Goldwater, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). A fully Bayesian approach to unsupervised part-of-speech tagging. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07). (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). Topics in semantic representation. Psychological Review, 114,211-244. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
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| Ghahramani, Z., Griffiths, T. L., & Sollich, P. (2007). Bayesian nonparametric latent feature models. Bayesian Statistics 8. Oxford University Press. (pdf) (discussion) (rejoinder)
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| Johnson, M., Griffiths, T. L., & Goldwater, S. (2007). Bayesian inference for PCFGs via Markov chain Monte Carlo. Proceedings of the North American Conference on Computational Linguistics (NAACL'07). (pdf)
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| Kirby, S., Dowman, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). Innateness and culture in the evolution of language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 5241-5245. (pdf)
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| Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T. L., & Niyogi, S. (2007). Intuitive theories as grammars for causal inference. In A. Gopnik, & L. Schulz (Eds.), Causal learning: Psychology, philosophy, and computation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). Two proposals for causal grammars. In A. Gopnik & L. Schulz (Eds.), Causal learning: Psychology, philosophy, and computation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pdf)
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| Steyvers, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). Probabilistic topic models. In T. L.andauer, D. S. McNamara, S. Dennis, & W. Kintsch (Eds.), Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
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| Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Johnson, M. (2007). Distributional cues to word segmentation: Context is important. Proceedings of the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pdf)
| 

| Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). From mere coincidences to meaningful discoveries. Cognition, 103, 180-226. (pdf)
| 2006
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2006). Optimal predictions in everyday cognition. Psychological Science, 17, 767-773. (pdf) (article in The Economist)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Yuille, A. (2006). A primer on probabilistic inference. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Supplement to special issue on Probabilistic Models of Cognition (volume 10, issue 7). (pdf)
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| Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T. L., & Kemp, C. (2006). Theory-based Bayesian models of inductive learning and reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Science, 10, 309-318. (pdf)
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| Steyvers, M., Griffiths, T. L., & Dennis, S. (2006). Probabilistic inference in human semantic memory. Trends in Cognitive Science, 10, 327-334. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2006). Statistics and the Bayesian mind. Significance, 3, 130-133. (pdf)
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| Purver, M., Kording, K. P., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2006). Unsupervised topic modelling for multi-party spoken discourse. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (pdf)
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| Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Johnson, M. (2006). Contextual dependencies in unsupervised word segmentation. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.(pdf)
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| Sanborn, A. N., Griffiths, T. L., & Navarro, D. J. (2006). A more rational model of categorization. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Bonawitz, E. B., Griffiths, T. L., & Schulz, L. (2006). Modeling cross-domain causal learning in preschoolers as Bayesian inference. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf) (winner of the Marr Prize for best student paper)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Christian, B. R., & Kalish, M. L. (2006). Revealing priors on category structures through iterated learning. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Kemp, C., Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T. L., Yamada, T., & Ueda, N. (2006). Learning systems of concepts with an infinite relational model. Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '06). (pdf) (IRM code)
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| Mansinghka, V. K., Kemp, C., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2006). Structured priors for structure learning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2006). (pdf)
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| Wood, F., Griffiths, T. L., & Ghahramani, Z. (2006). A non-parametric Bayesian method for inferring hidden causes. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2006). (pdf)
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| Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Johnson, M. (2006). Interpolating between types and tokens by estimating power law generators. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18. (pdf) (note: this version of the paper is slightly modified from the hardcopy proceedings)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Ghahramani, Z. (2006). Infinite latent feature models and the Indian buffet process. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18. (pdf)
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| Navarro, D. J., Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., & Lee, M. D. (2006). Modeling individual differences using Dirichlet processes. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 50, 101-122. (pdf)
| 2005
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2005). Structure and strength in causal induction. Cognitive Psychology, 51, 354-384. (pdf) (Matlab code for computing causal support)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Kalish, M. L. (2005). A Bayesian view of language evolution by iterated learning. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Navarro, D. J., Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., & Lee, M. D. (2005). Modeling individual differences with Dirichlet processes. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Ghahramani, Z. (2005). Infinite latent feature models and the Indian buffet process. Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit Technical Report GCNU TR 2005-001. (pdf)
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| Iwata, T., Saito, K., Ueda, N., Stromsten, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2005). Parametric embedding for class visualization. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., Blei, D. M., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2005). Integrating topics and syntax. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
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| Griffiths, T. L. (2005). Causes, coincidences, and theories. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Stanford University, Stanford CA. (pdf)
| 2004
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| Kemp, C., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2004). Discovering latent classes in relational data. AI Memo 2004-019 (pdf)
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| Steyvers, M., Smyth, P., Rosen-Zvi, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2004). Probabilistic Author-Topic models for information discovery. The Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. (pdf) (demo) (topic modeling toolbox)
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| Rosen-Zvi, M., Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., & Smyth, P. (2004). The Author-Topic Model for authors and documents. 20th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. (pdf) (demo) (topic modeling toolbox)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Steyvers, M. (2004). Finding scientific topics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 5228-5235. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
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| Kemp, C. S, Griffiths, T. L., Stromsten, S., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2004). Semi-supervised learning with trees. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16. (pdf)
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| Blei, D. M., Griffiths, T. L., Jordan, M. I., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2004). Hierarchical topic models and the nested Chinese restaurant process. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16. (pdf) (winner of the Best Student Paper prize)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2004). From algorithmic to subjective randomness. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16. (pdf) (winner of the Best Student Paper prize)
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| Griffiths, T. L., Baraff, E. R., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2004). Using physical theories to infer hidden causal structure. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 2003
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| Danks, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2003). Dynamical causal learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15. (pdf)
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| Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2003). Theory-based causal inference. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Steyvers, M. (2003). Prediction and semantic association. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2003). Probability, algorithmic complexity, and subjective randomness. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
| 2002
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Kalish, M. L. (2002). A multidimensional scaling approach to mental multiplication. Memory and Cognition, 30, 97-106. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2002). Using vocabulary knowledge in Bayesian multinomial estimation. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14. (pdf)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Steyvers, M. (2002). A probabilistic approach to semantic representation. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
| 2001
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| Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2001). Structure learning in human causal induction. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13. (pdf) (Matlab code for computing causal support)
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2001). Randomness and coincidences: Reconciling intuition and probability theory. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2001). The rational basis of representativeness. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2001). Generalization, similarity, and Bayesian inference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24,629-641. (pdf)
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| Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2001). Some specifics about generalization. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 772-778. (html)
| 2000
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| Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2000). Teacakes, trains, toxins, and taxicabs: A Bayesian account of predicting the future. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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| Lewandowsky, S., Kalish, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2000). Competing strategies in categorization: Expediency and resistance to knowledge restructuring. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1666-1684. (pdf)
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