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

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