Inferential social learning: cognitive foundations of human social learning and teaching

Learning from other minds: an optimistic critique of reinforcement learning models of social learning

(2021) Natalia Vélez et al.   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

When redundancy is useful: A Bayesian approach to “overinformative” referring expressions.

(2020) Judith Degen et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW

Knowledge before Belief

(2020) Jonathan Phillips et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

New Caledonian crows infer the weight of objects from observing their movements in a breeze

(2019) Sarah A. Jelbert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Young children consider the expected utility of others’ learning to decide what to teach

(2019) Sophie Bridgers et al.   Nature Human Behaviour

Cognitive Foundations of Learning from Testimony

(2018) Paul L. Harris et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

Social Learning Strategies: Bridge-Building between Fields

(2018) Rachel L. Kendal et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

From needs to goals and representations: Foundations for a unified theory of motivation, personality, and development.

(2017) Carol S. Dweck   PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW

Ten-month-old infants infer the value of goals from the costs of actions

(2017) Shari Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Bumblebees show cognitive flexibility by improving on an observed complex behavior

(2017) Olli J. Loukola et al.   SCIENCE

Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs

(2016) C. Krupenye et al.   SCIENCE

The Naïve Utility Calculus: Computational Principles Underlying Commonsense Psychology

(2016) Julian Jara-Ettinger et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Pragmatic Language Interpretation as Probabilistic Inference

(2016) Noah D. Goodman et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

What Cognitive Representations Support Primate Theory of Mind?

(2016) Alia Martin et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Tool transfers are a form of teaching among chimpanzees

(2016) Stephanie Musgrave et al.   Scientific Reports

Foundations of cumulative culture in apes: improved foraging efficiency through relinquishing and combining witnessed behaviours in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2016) Sarah J. Davis et al.   Scientific Reports

Nonverbal Generics: Human Infants Interpret Objects as Symbols of Object Kinds

(2015) Gergely Csibra et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

Observing the unexpected enhances infants' learning and exploration

(2015) A. E. Stahl et al.   SCIENCE

Imitation and Innovation: The Dual Engines of Cultural Learning

(2015) Cristine H. Legare et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

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

(2014) Patrick Shafto et al.   COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The Child as Econometrician: A Rational Model of Preference Understanding in Children

(2014) Christopher G. Lucas et al.   PLoS One

Core foundations of abstract geometry

(2013) M. R. Dillon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Knowledge matters: How children evaluate the reliability of testimony as a process of rational inference.

(2013) David M. Sobel et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW

Reconstructing constructivism: Causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms, and the theory theory.

(2012) Alison Gopnik et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

The origins of inquiry: inductive inference and exploration in early childhood

(2012) Laura Schulz   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation

(2011) R. Boyd et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social learning spreads knowledge about dangerous humans among American crows

(2011) H. N. Cornell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

16-Month-Olds Rationally Infer Causes of Failed Actions

(2011) H. Gweon et al.   SCIENCE

Pure Reasoning in 12-Month-Old Infants as Probabilistic Inference

(2011) E. Teglas et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) J. B. Tenenbaum et al.   SCIENCE

Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies

(2011) Luke Rendell et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence

(2010) L. Cosmides et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Infants consider both the sample and the sampling process in inductive generalization

(2010) H. Gweon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The cognitive niche: Coevolution of intelligence, sociality, and language

(2010) S. Pinker   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Size-dependent directed social learning in nine-spined sticklebacks

(2009) Grant A. Duffy et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Varieties of altruism in children and chimpanzees

(2009) Felix Warneken et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Natural pedagogy

(2009) Gergely Csibra et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Investigating children as cultural magnets: do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains?

(2008) E. Flynn   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES