List of works - Alison Gopnik

A computational foundation for cognitive development: comment on Griffths et al. and McLelland et al.

scientific article published on 28 June 2010

A theory of causal learning in children: causal maps and Bayes nets

scientific article published on January 2004

Alison Gopnik: What do babies think?

TEDGlobal 2011

Bayes and blickets: effects of knowledge on causal induction in children and adults

scientific article published on 4 October 2011

Bayesian models of child development

scientific article

Bayesian networks, Bayesian learning and cognitive development

scientific article published in May 2007

Categorization and Naming: Basic-Level Sorting in Eighteen-Month-Olds and Its Relation to Language

article by Alison Gopnik & Andrew N. Meltzoff published October 1992 in Child Development

Categorization and Naming: Basic-Level Sorting in Eighteen-Month-Olds and Its Relation to Language

article by Alison Gopnik & Andrew N. Meltzoff published October 1992 in Child Development

Causal Learning Across Culture and Socioeconomic Status

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

Causal learning across domains

scientific article published in March 2004

Causal learning from probabilistic events in 24-month-olds: an action measure

scientific article published on 16 July 2014

Causal learning mechanisms in very young children: two-, three-, and four-year-olds infer causal relations from patterns of variation and covariation.

scientific article

Changes in cognitive flexibility and hypothesis search across human life history from childhood to adolescence to adulthood

scientific article

Children's causal inferences from conflicting testimony and observations

scientific article

Children's understanding of representational change and its relation to the understanding of false belief and the appearance-reality distinction

scientific article

Children’s imitation of causal action sequences is influenced by statistical and pedagogical evidence ⬇️

scientific article published on February 19, 2011

Conceptual Coherence in the Child's Theory of Mind: Training Children to Understand Belief

scientific article published in December 1996

Conceptual coherence in the child's theory of mind: training children to understand belief

scientific article published in December 1996

Conditional probability versus spatial contiguity in causal learning: Preschoolers use new contingency evidence to overcome prior spatial assumptions

scientific article published in January 2007

Detecting blickets: how young children use information about novel causal powers in categorization and induction.

scientific article

Developing intuitions about free will between ages four and six.

scientific article published on 24 February 2015

Did she jump because she was the big sister or because the trampoline was safe? Causal inference and the development of social attribution

scientific article published on 24 September 2012

Discriminating relational and perceptual judgments: Evidence from human toddlers

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

Do young children reverse ambiguous figures?

scientific article published in January 1994

Early acquisition of verbs in Korean: a cross-linguistic study.

scientific article published on October 1995

Early reasoning about desires: evidence from 14- and 18-month-olds

scientific article

Ensemble perception of size in 4-5-year-old children

scientific article

Explaining Constrains Causal Learning in Childhood

scientific article published on 8 July 2016

Explaining prompts children to privilege inductively rich properties

scientific article published on 14 August 2014

From people, to plans, to objects

article published in 1985

How Causal Learning Helps Us Understand Other People and How Other People Help Us Learn About Causes

scientific article published on 23 April 2013

How Universal Are Free Will Beliefs? Cultural Differences in Chinese and U.S. 4- and 6-Year-Olds

scientific article published on May 2016

How babies think

scientific article

Infants learn about objects from statistics and people ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2011

Inferring Hidden Causal Structure ⬇️

scientific article published on October 27, 2009

Inferring action structure and causal relationships in continuous sequences of human action.

scientific article published on 18 December 2014

Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers' causal inferences

scientific article published on 25 January 2010

Learning about causes from people and about people as causes: probabilistic models and social causal reasoning

scientific article published on January 2012

Learning about causes from people: observational causal learning in 24-month-old infants

scientific article

Learning to learn from stories: children's developing sensitivity to the causal structure of fictional worlds.

scientific article published on 22 August 2014

Life history, love and learning

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Linguistic and cognitive abilities in infancy: when does language become a tool for categorization?

scientific article published in July 2001

Mechanisms of theory formation in young children

scientific article published in August 2004

No conclusive evidence that corvids can create novel causal interventions.

scientific article published in August 2015

Of babies and birds: complex tool behaviours are not sufficient for the evolution of the ability to create a novel causal intervention

article by Alex H Taylor et al published 22 July 2014 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Preschool children learn about causal structure from conditional interventions

scientific article

Pretense and possibility--a theoretical proposal about the effects of pretend play on development: comment on Lillard et al. (2013).

scientific article published on January 2013

Pretense, counterfactuals, and Bayesian causal models: why what is not real really matters

scientific article

Probabilistic models, learning algorithms, and response variability: sampling in cognitive development

scientific article published on 04 July 2014

Rational randomness: the role of sampling in an algorithmic account of preschooler's causal learning

scientific article published on January 2012

Rational variability in children’s causal inferences: The Sampling Hypothesis ⬇️

scientific article published on November 28, 2012

Reconstructing constructivism: causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms, and the theory theory

scientific article

Reversing how to think about ambiguous figure reversals: spontaneous alternating by uninformed observers

scientific article published in January 2006

Scientific Thinking in Young Children: Theoretical Advances, Empirical Research, and Policy Implications ⬇️

scientific article published on September 28, 2012

Semantic and cognitive development in 15- to 21-month-old children

scientific article published on October 1984

Sensitive perception of a person’s direction of walking by 4-year-old children ⬇️

scientific article published on January 28, 2013

Source monitoring reduces the suggestibility of preschool children

scientific article published in May 2002

The Blicket Within: Preschoolers' Inferences About Insides and Causes

scientific article published on January 2007

The Theory Theory 2.0: Probabilistic Models and Cognitive Development

article

The acquisition of gone and the development of the object concept

scientific article published on June 1984

The child as econometrician: a rational model of preference understanding in children

scientific article

The early emergence and puzzling decline of relational reasoning: Effects of knowledge and search on inferring abstract concepts

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

The power of possibility: causal learning, counterfactual reasoning, and pretend play ⬇️

scientific article published on August 5, 2012

Toddlers infer higher-order relational principles in causal learning

scientific article published on 22 November 2013

What Does "Mind-Wandering" Mean to the Folk? An Empirical Investigation

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

When children are better (or at least more open-minded) learners than adults: developmental differences in learning the forms of causal relationships.

scientific article

Which Counterfactuals Matter? A Response to Beck

scientific article

Win-Stay, Lose-Sample: a simple sequential algorithm for approximating Bayesian inference

scientific article published in August 2014

Words and plans: early language and the development of intelligent action.

scientific article published in June 1982

Young Children's Understanding of Changes in Their Mental States

scientific article published in February 1991

Young children infer causal strength from probabilities and interventions.

scientific article

List of works by Alison Gopnik

A computational foundation for cognitive development: comment on Griffths et al. and McLelland et al.

A theory of causal learning in children: causal maps and Bayes nets

Alison Gopnik: What do babies think?

Bayes and blickets: effects of knowledge on causal induction in children and adults

Bayesian models of child development

Bayesian networks, Bayesian learning and cognitive development

Categorization and Naming: Basic-Level Sorting in Eighteen-Month-Olds and Its Relation to Language

Categorization and Naming: Basic-Level Sorting in Eighteen-Month-Olds and Its Relation to Language

Causal Learning Across Culture and Socioeconomic Status

Causal learning across domains

Causal learning from probabilistic events in 24-month-olds: an action measure

Causal learning mechanisms in very young children: two-, three-, and four-year-olds infer causal relations from patterns of variation and covariation.

Changes in cognitive flexibility and hypothesis search across human life history from childhood to adolescence to adulthood

Children's causal inferences from conflicting testimony and observations

Children's understanding of representational change and its relation to the understanding of false belief and the appearance-reality distinction

Children’s imitation of causal action sequences is influenced by statistical and pedagogical evidence ⬇️

Conceptual Coherence in the Child's Theory of Mind: Training Children to Understand Belief

Conceptual coherence in the child's theory of mind: training children to understand belief

Conditional probability versus spatial contiguity in causal learning: Preschoolers use new contingency evidence to overcome prior spatial assumptions

Detecting blickets: how young children use information about novel causal powers in categorization and induction.

Developing intuitions about free will between ages four and six.

Did she jump because she was the big sister or because the trampoline was safe? Causal inference and the development of social attribution

Discriminating relational and perceptual judgments: Evidence from human toddlers

Do young children reverse ambiguous figures?

Early acquisition of verbs in Korean: a cross-linguistic study.

Early reasoning about desires: evidence from 14- and 18-month-olds

Ensemble perception of size in 4-5-year-old children

Explaining Constrains Causal Learning in Childhood

Explaining prompts children to privilege inductively rich properties

From people, to plans, to objects

How Causal Learning Helps Us Understand Other People and How Other People Help Us Learn About Causes

How Universal Are Free Will Beliefs? Cultural Differences in Chinese and U.S. 4- and 6-Year-Olds

How babies think

Infants learn about objects from statistics and people ⬇️

Inferring Hidden Causal Structure ⬇️

Inferring action structure and causal relationships in continuous sequences of human action.

Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers' causal inferences

Learning about causes from people and about people as causes: probabilistic models and social causal reasoning

Learning about causes from people: observational causal learning in 24-month-old infants

Learning to learn from stories: children's developing sensitivity to the causal structure of fictional worlds.

Life history, love and learning

Linguistic and cognitive abilities in infancy: when does language become a tool for categorization?

Mechanisms of theory formation in young children

No conclusive evidence that corvids can create novel causal interventions.

Of babies and birds: complex tool behaviours are not sufficient for the evolution of the ability to create a novel causal intervention

Preschool children learn about causal structure from conditional interventions

Pretense and possibility--a theoretical proposal about the effects of pretend play on development: comment on Lillard et al. (2013).

Pretense, counterfactuals, and Bayesian causal models: why what is not real really matters

Probabilistic models, learning algorithms, and response variability: sampling in cognitive development

Rational randomness: the role of sampling in an algorithmic account of preschooler's causal learning

Rational variability in children’s causal inferences: The Sampling Hypothesis ⬇️

Reconstructing constructivism: causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms, and the theory theory

Reversing how to think about ambiguous figure reversals: spontaneous alternating by uninformed observers

Scientific Thinking in Young Children: Theoretical Advances, Empirical Research, and Policy Implications ⬇️

Semantic and cognitive development in 15- to 21-month-old children

Sensitive perception of a person’s direction of walking by 4-year-old children ⬇️

Source monitoring reduces the suggestibility of preschool children

The Blicket Within: Preschoolers' Inferences About Insides and Causes

The Theory Theory 2.0: Probabilistic Models and Cognitive Development

The acquisition of gone and the development of the object concept

The child as econometrician: a rational model of preference understanding in children

The early emergence and puzzling decline of relational reasoning: Effects of knowledge and search on inferring abstract concepts

The power of possibility: causal learning, counterfactual reasoning, and pretend play ⬇️

Toddlers infer higher-order relational principles in causal learning

What Does "Mind-Wandering" Mean to the Folk? An Empirical Investigation

When children are better (or at least more open-minded) learners than adults: developmental differences in learning the forms of causal relationships.

Which Counterfactuals Matter? A Response to Beck

Win-Stay, Lose-Sample: a simple sequential algorithm for approximating Bayesian inference

Words and plans: early language and the development of intelligent action.

Young Children's Understanding of Changes in Their Mental States

Young children infer causal strength from probabilities and interventions.