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Cultural Evolution and Iterated Learning
CEIL	Brinkmann, L., Baumann, F., Bonnefon, J., Derex, M., Müller, T. F., Nussberger, A., Czaplicka, A., Acerbi, A., Griffiths, T. L., Henrich, J., Leibo, J. Z., McElreath, R., Oudeyer, P., Stray, J., & Rahwan, I. (2023). Machine culture. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(11), 1855-1868.(pdf)
CEIL DMRL	Hardy, M. D., Thompson, B., Krafft, P. M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks. Nature Human Behavior, 7, 2084-2098. (pdf)
SML CEIL	Hawkins, R. D., Franke, M., Frank, M. C., Goldberg, A. E., Smith, K., Griffiths, T. L., & Goodman, N. D. (2023). From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention. Psychological Review. (pdf)
CEIL	Uddenberg, S., Thompson, B. D., Vlasceanu, M., Griffiths, T. L., & Todorov, A. (2023). Iterated learning reveals stereotypes of facial trustworthiness that propagate in the absence of evidence. Cognition, 237, 105452. (pdf)
CEIL	Vélez, N., Christian, B., Hardy, M., Thompson, B. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). How do humans overcome individual computational limitations by working together? Cognitive Science, 47(1), e13232. (pdf)
CEIL	Gates, V., Suchow, J. W., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). Memory transmission in small groups and large networks: An empirical study. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29(2), 581-588. (pdf) (supplementary materials)
RPM CEIL	Hardy, M. D., Krafft, P. M., Thompson, B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). Overcoming Individual Limitations Through Distributed Computation: Rational Information Accumulation in Multigenerational Populations. Topics in Cognitive Science, 14(3), 550–573. (pdf)
CEIL	Morgan, T. J., Suchow, J. W., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). The experimental evolution of human culture: flexibility, fidelity and environmental instability. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289(1986), 20221614. (pdf)
CEIL	Thompson, B., van Opheusden, B., Sumers, T., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). Complex cognitive algorithms preserved by selective social learning in experimental populations. Science, 376(6588), 95-98. (pdf)
SML CEIL	Yamakoshi, T., Griffiths, T.L., Hawkins, R.D. (2022) Probing BERT's priors with serial reproduction chains. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). (pdf)
PR CEIL	Krafft, P. M., Shmueli, E., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2021). Bayesian collective learning emerges from heuristic social learning. Cognition, 212, 104469. (pdf)
P CEIL	Langlois, T. A., Jacoby, N., Suchow, J. W., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Serial reproduction reveals the geometry of visuospatial representations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(13), e2012938118. (pdf)
CEIL	Thompson, B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Human biases limit cumulative innovation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288, 20202752. (pdf)
SML CEIL	Hawkins, R. D., Goodman, N. D., Goldberg, A. E., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Generalizing meanings from partners to populations: Hierarchical inference supports convention formation on networks. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
CEIL	Morgan, T. J., Suchow, J. W., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Experimental evolutionary simulations of learning, memory and life history. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375, 20190504. (pdf)
CEIL	Morgan, T. J., Suchow, J. W., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). What the Baldwin Effect affects depends on the nature of plasticity. Cognition, 197, 104165. (pdf)
CEIL	Thompson, B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2019). Inductive biases constrain cumulative cultural evolution. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
CEIL	Whalen, A., Griffiths, T. L., & Buchsbaum, D. (2018). Sensitivity to shared information in social learning. Cognitive Science, 42(1), 168-187. (pdf)
F CEIL	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)
F CEIL	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)
SML CEIL	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)
P CEIL	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)
CEIL	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)
F CEIL	Suchow, J. W., & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Rethinking experiment design as algorithm design. CrowdML – NIPS '16 Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning. (pdf)
P CEIL	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)
CI CEIL	Yeung, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). Identifying expectations about the strength of causal relationships. Cognitive Psychology, 76, 1-29. (pdf)
CEIL	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)
SML CEIL	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)
CEIL	Kirby, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Smith, K. (2014). Iterated learning and the evolution of language. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 28, 108-114. (pdf)
S&C CEIL	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)
SML CEIL	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)
S&C CEIL	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)
SML CEIL	Rafferty, A. N., Griffiths, T. L., & Ettlinger, M. (2013). Greater learnability is not sufficient to produce cultural universals. Cognition, 129, 70-87. (pdf)
CEIL	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)
CI CEIL	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)
PR CEIL	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)
S&C CEIL	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)
SML CEIL	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)
CEIL	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)
S&C CEIL	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)
SML CEIL	Griffiths, T. L., & Reali, F. (2011). Modelling minds as well as populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B. (pdf)
CI CEIL	Yeung, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). Estimating human priors on causal strength. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
S&C CEIL	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)
SML CEIL	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)
SML CEIL	Burkett, D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Iterated learning of multiple languages from multiple teachers. Evolang 8. (pdf)
S&C CEIL	Xu, J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). A rational analysis of the effects of memory biases on serial reproduction. Cognitive Psychology, 60, 107-126. (pdf)
SML CEIL	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)
P S&C CEIL	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)
PR CEIL	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)
CEIL	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.
SML CEIL	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)
S&C CEIL	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)
CEIL	Beppu, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). Iterated learning and the cultural ratchet. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
CEIL	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)
SML CEIL	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)
CEIL	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)
CEIL	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)
SML CEIL	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)
S&C CEIL	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)
SML CEIL	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)
NBM CEIL	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)
CEIL	Griffiths, T. L., & Kalish, M. L. (2007). Language evolution by iterated learning with Bayesian agents. Cognitive Science, 31, 441-480. (pdf)
CEIL	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)
SML CEIL	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)
CEIL	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)
S&C CEIL	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)
CEIL	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)