publications

2024

1. Why think step by step? Reasoning emerges from the locality of experience

   Ben Prystawski, Michael Li, and Noah Goodman

   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Oral), 2024
2. Estimating the Replicability of Psychology Experiments after an Initial Failure to Replicate

   Veronica Boyce, Ben Prystawski, Adani B. Abutto, and 17 more authors

   Collabra: Psychology, Nov 2024

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2023

1. Cultural reinforcement learning: a framework for modeling cumulative culture on a limited channel

   Ben Prystawski, Dilip Arumugam, and Noah D. Goodman

   In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nov 2023
2. Psychologically-informed chain-of-thought prompts for metaphor understanding in large language models

   Ben Prystawski, Paul Thibodeau, Christopher Potts, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nov 2023
3. Toward a normative theory of (self-) management by goal-setting

   Nishad Singhi, Florian Mohnert, Ben Prystawski, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nov 2023

2022

1. The Emergence of Gender Associations in Child Language Development

   Ben Prystawski, Erin Grant, Aida Nematzadeh, and 3 more authors

   Cognitive Science, Nov 2022
2. Resource-rational Models of Human Goal Pursuit

   Ben Prystawski, Florian Mohnert, Mateo Tošić, and 1 more author

   Topics in Cognitive Science, Nov 2022

2021

1. Algorithms for Adaptive Experiments that Trade-off Statistical Analysis with Reward: Combining Uniform Random Assignment and Reward Maximization

   Jacob Nogas, Tong Li, Fernando J. Yanez, and 6 more authors

   In Causal Inference Challenges in Sequential Decision Making: Bridging Theory and Practice - a NeurIPS 2021 Workshop, Nov 2021
2. Modelling Recognition in Human Puzzle Solving

   Ben Prystawski, Rebekah Gelpi, Christopher G Lucas, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 43nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nov 2021

2020

1. Tracing the Emergence of Gendered Language in Childhood

   Ben Prystawski, Erin Grant, Aida Nematzadeh, and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nov 2020
2. Incremental Hypothesis Revision in Causal Reasoning Across Development

   Rebekah Gelpi, Ben Prystawski, Christopher G Lucas, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nov 2020