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List of works by Thomas L. Griffiths

A Bayesian framework for word segmentation: exploring the effects of context

scientific article

A Nonparametric Bayesian Method for Inferring Features From Similarity Judgments

scientific article published in January 2007

A Probabilistic Approach to Language Change

A Probabilistic Model of Meetings That Combines Words and Discourse Features

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A Rational Analysis of Rule‐Based Concept Learning

scientific article published on January 2, 2008

A multidimensional scaling approach to mental multiplication

scientific article published in January 2002

A nonparametric Bayesian framework for constructing flexible feature representations

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A probabilistic model of theory formation

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A rational account of pedagogical reasoning: teaching by, and learning from, examples.

scientific article published on 7 March 2014

A rational analysis of the effects of memory biases on serial reproduction

scientific article published on 30 October 2009

A rational model of causal inference with continuous causes

scientific article published in January 2011

A rational model of function learning

scientific article

A rational model of preference learning and choice prediction by children

A rational model of the effects of distributional information on feature learning

scientific article published on September 20, 2011

A role for the developing lexicon in phonetic category acquisition

scientific article

A tutorial introduction to Bayesian models of cognitive development

scientific article published on January 26, 2011

Adaptor Grammars: A Framework for Specifying Compositional Nonparametric Bayesian Models

scientific article published in January 2007

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

2017 book by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

An ideal observer model for identifying the reference frame of objects

scientific article published in January 2011

Analyzing human feature learning as nonparametric Bayesian inference

scientific article published in January 2009

Analyzing the rate at which languages lose the influence of a common ancestor

scientific article published on 19 March 2014

Automated reconstruction of ancient languages using probabilistic models of sound change

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 4 October 2011

Can being scared cause tummy aches? Naive theories, ambiguous evidence, and preschoolers' causal inferences

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

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Children's causal inferences from conflicting testimony and observations

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

scientific article published on February 19, 2011

Contextual dependencies in unsupervised word segmentation

Cultural transmission results in convergence towards colour term universals.

scientific article published on 13 March 2013

Differential Use of Implicit Negative Evidence in Generative and Discriminative Language Learning

scientific article published in January 2009

Dynamical Causal Learning

scientific article published in January 2003

Empirical evidence for resource-rational anchoring and adjustment

scientific article published on 8 May 2017

Evaluating (and Improving) the Correspondence Between Deep Neural Networks and Human Representations

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

Evolution in Mind: Evolutionary Dynamics, Cognitive Processes, and Bayesian Inference

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Exemplar models as a mechanism for performing Bayesian inference

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Exploring Human Cognition Using Large Image Databases

scientific article published on July 2016

Faster Teaching via POMDP Planning

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Finding scientific topics

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Finding the traces of behavioral and cognitive processes in big data and naturally occurring datasets

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Focal colors across languages are representative members of color categories

scientific article published on 19 September 2016

From Algorithmic to Subjective Randomness

scientific article published in January 2004

From mere coincidences to meaningful discoveries

scientific article published on 04 May 2006

Google and the mind: predicting fluency with PageRank

scientific article

Greater learnability is not sufficient to produce cultural universals

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Hierarchical Topic Models and the Nested Chinese Restaurant Process

scientific article published in January 2004

How memory biases affect information transmission: A rational analysis of serial reproduction

How the Bayesians got their beliefs (and what those beliefs actually are): comment on Bowers and Davis (2012).

scientific article published in May 2012

How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction

scientific article published on March 11, 2011

Human memory search as a random walk in a semantic network

scientific article published in January 2012

Identifying expectations about the strength of causal relationships

scientific article published on 15 December 2014

Individuals with cerebellar degeneration show similar adaptation deficits with large and small visuomotor errors

scientific article published on 28 November 2012

Infant-directed speech is consistent with teaching

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

scientific article published on 18 December 2014

Inferring learners' knowledge from their actions

scientific article published on 25 August 2014

Inferring mass in complex scenes by mental simulation

scientific article

Infinite latent feature models and the Indian buffet process

scientific article published in January 2006

Innateness and culture in the evolution of language

scholarly article

Integrating Topics and Syntax

scientific article published in January 2005

Interpolating between types and tokens by estimating power-law generators

scientific article published in January 2006

Introduction. Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour

scientific article published on November 2008

Iterated learning: intergenerational knowledge transmission reveals inductive biases.

scientific article published in April 2007

Language evolution by iterated learning with bayesian agents

scientific article published in May 2007

Latent features in similarity judgments: a nonparametric bayesian approach

scientific article

Learning invariant features using the Transformed Indian Buffet Process

Learning systems of concepts with an infinite relational model

scientific article published in July 2006

Learning the form of causal relationships using hierarchical bayesian models

scientific article published on 28 July 2009

Learning to Be (In)variant: Combining Prior Knowledge and Experience to Infer Orientation Invariance in Object Recognition

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Manifesto for a new (computational) cognitive revolution

scientific article

Markov Chain Monte Carlo with People

scientific article published in January 2008

Modeling human function learning with Gaussian processes

Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation

scientific article published on September 15, 2010

Modeling individual differences using Dirichlet processes

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Modeling the effects of memory on human online sentence processing with particle filters

Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile human cerebral cortex

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Neural Implementation of Hierarchical Bayesian Inference by Importance Sampling

scientific article published in January 2009

Nonparametric Latent Feature Models for Link Prediction

scientific article published in January 2009

One and done? Optimal decisions from very few samples

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Optimal predictions in everyday cognition

scientific article published on September 2006

Optimally designing games for behavioural research

scientific article published in July 2014

Overrepresentation of extreme events in decision making reflects rational use of cognitive resources

scientific article

Parametric Embedding for Class Visualization

scientific article published in January 2005

Parametric embedding for class visualization

scientific article published in September 2007

Particle Filtering for Nonparametric Bayesian Matrix Factorization

scientific article published in January 2007

Predicting the future as Bayesian inference: People combine prior knowledge with observations when estimating duration and extent

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

Prediction and Semantic Association

scientific article published in January 2003

Probabilistic inference in human semantic memory

scientific article published on 21 June 2006

Probabilistic models of cognition: exploring representations and inductive biases

scientific article

Probabilistic models of cognitive development: Towards a rational constructivist approach to the study of learning and development

scientific article published on September 1, 2011

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

scientific article published on 04 July 2014

Random walks on semantic networks can resemble optimal foraging

scientific article published on 02 February 2015

Rational approximations to rational models: alternative algorithms for category learning

scientific article published in October 2010

Rational metareasoning and the plasticity of cognitive control

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Rational use of cognitive resources: levels of analysis between the computational and the algorithmic

scientific article published on 20 April 2015

Rational variability in children's causal inferences: the Sampling Hypothesis

scientific article published on 28 November 2012

Reconciling intuitive physics and Newtonian mechanics for colliding objects

scientific article published on 4 March 2013

Relevant and robust: a response to Marcus and Davis (2013).

scientific article published on 5 March 2015

Rethinking language: How probabilities shape the words we use

scientific article published on February 23, 2011

Revealing ontological commitments by magic

scientific article published on 06 December 2014

Review. Theoretical and empirical evidence for the impact of inductive biases on cultural evolution

scientific article

Sampling Assumptions Affect Use of Indirect Negative Evidence in Language Learning

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Semi-Supervised Learning with Trees

scientific article published in January 2004

Sensitivity to Shared Information in Social Learning

scientific article

Sources of developmental change in the efficiency of information search

scientific article published in December 2016

Strategy selection as rational metareasoning

scientific article published in November 2017

Structure Learning in Human Causal Induction

Structure and strength in causal induction

scientific article published on 5 October 2005

Subjective randomness as statistical inference

scientific article published on 7 March 2018

Testing a Bayesian Measure of Representativeness Using a Large Image Database

scientific article published in January 2011

Testing the efficiency of Markov chain Monte Carlo with People using facial affect categories

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The Hierarchical Cortical Organization of Human Speech Processing

scientific article published on 06 June 2017

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Probabilistic Inference: Evidence from the Domain of Color

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The Wisdom of Individuals: Exploring People's Knowledge About Everyday Events Using Iterated Learning

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The anchoring bias reflects rational use of cognitive resources

scientific article published on 8 May 2017

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

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The effects of cultural transmission are modulated by the amount of information transmitted.

scientific article published on 24 May 2013

The evolution of frequency distributions: relating regularization to inductive biases through iterated learning

scientific article published on 26 March 2009

The influence of categories on perception: explaining the perceptual magnet effect as optimal statistical inference

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Theory-Based Causal Inference

scientific article published in January 2003

Theory-based Bayesian models of inductive learning and reasoning

scientific article published on 22 June 2006

Theory-based causal induction

scientific article published on October 2009

Topics in semantic representation

scientific article published on April 2007

Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort

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Tracing the roots of syntax with Bayesian phylogenetics

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Uncovering mental representations with Markov chain Monte Carlo

scientific article published on 22 August 2009

Unsupervised topic modelling for multi-party spoken discourse

scholarly article published 2006

Using Vocabulary Knowledge in Bayesian Multinomial Estimation

Using category structures to test iterated learning as a method for identifying inductive biases

scientific article published in January 2008

When Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence: Rational Inferences From Absent Data

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

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Why are people bad at detecting randomness? A statistical argument

scientific article published on 22 April 2013

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

scientific article published in August 2014

Word-level information influences phonetic learning in adults and infants

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Words as alleles: connecting language evolution with Bayesian learners to models of genetic drift

scientific article published on 7 October 2009