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A rational framework for group-based selective social learning
Max Taylor-Davies
,
Neil R. Bramley
, Christopher G. Lucas
Under Submission
Guesses as compressed probability distributions
Tadeg Quillien
,
Neil R. Bramley
, Christopher G. Lucas
Under Submission
Preprint
Inverting the Turing test to track changing intuitions about artificial minds
Stephanie Droop
, Cansu Oranc, Kai-Xuan Chai,
Neil R. Bramley
, Azzurra Ruggeri
Under Submission
Project
People attribute purpose to autonomous vehicles when explaining their behavior
Balint Gyevnar,
Stephanie Droop
,
Tadeg Quillien
, Shay B. Cohen,
Neil R. Bramley
, Christopher G. Lucas, Stefano V. Albrecht
Under Submission
Preprint
Productive causation and compositionality
Tadeg Quillien
,
Neil R. Bramley
, Christopher G. Lucas
Under Submission
Rational causal induction from time
Tianwei Gong
, M Pacer, Thomas L. Griffiths,
Neil R. Bramley
Under Submission
Representational constraints shape human information-seeking
Sam J. Cheyette, Fred L. Callaway,
Neil R. Bramley
, Jonathan D. Nelson, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
Under Submission
The ABC of heuristics
Simon Valentin
,
Tianwei Gong
,
Neil R. Bramley
, Christopher G. Lucas
Under Submission
2024
A model of conceptual bootstrapping in human cognition
Bonan Zhao
, Christopher G. Lucas,
Neil R. Bramley
Nature Human Behaviour
, 8(1), 125-136.
PDF
Project
Preregistration
Designing Optimal Behavioral Experiments Using Machine Learning
Simon Valentin*, Steven Kleinegesse*,
Neil R. Bramley
, Peggy Seriès, Michael U. Gutmann, Christopher G. Lucas
eLife
, 13:e86224.
PDF
Preprint
Tutorial Notebook
Evidence from the future
Tianwei Gong
,
Neil R. Bramley
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
PDF
Preprint
Project
Less is more: Local focus in continuous time causal learning
Victor Btesh,
Neil R. Bramley
, Maarten Speekenbrink, David A. Lagnado
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition
Preprint
Demo
Naïve information aggregation in human social learning
Jan-Philipp Fränken
, Simon Valentin, Christopher G. Lucas,
Neil R. Bramley
Cognition
, 242, 105633.
PDF
Preprint
Project
Functional rule inference from causal selection explanations
Nicolas Navarre
, Can Konuk,
Neil R. Bramley
, Salvador Mascarenhas
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Preprint
Paradoxical parsimony: How latent complexity favors theory simplicity
Tianwei Gong
, Simon Valentin, Christopher G. Lucas,
Neil R. Bramley
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Project
Slow mapping words as incremental meaning refinement
Ella Markham
, Hugh Rabagliati,
Neil R. Bramley
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Project
2023
Local search and the evolution of world models
Neil R. Bramley
,
Bonan Zhao
,
Tadeg Quillien
, Christopher G. Lucas
Topics in Cognitive Science
PDF
Preprint
Project
Continuous time causal structure induction with prevention and generation
Tianwei Gong
,
Neil R. Bramley
Cognition
, 240, 105530.
PDF
Project
Preregistration
Active inductive inference in children and adults: A constructivist perspective
Neil R. Bramley
, Fei Xu
Cognition
, 238, 105471
PDF
Preprint
Demo
Project
Workshop
Active Causal Structure Learning in Continuous Time
Tianwei Gong
, Tobias Gerstenberg, Ralf Mayrhofer,
Neil R. Bramley
Cognitive Psychology
, 140, 101542.
PDF
Preprint
Project
A rational model of spatial neglect
Tianwei Gong
,
Bonan Zhao
, Robert D. McIntosh, Christpher G. Lucas
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
🏆 Student Travel Award 🏆
PDF
Project
Bootstrapping compositional generalization with cache-and-reuse
Bonan Zhao
, Christopher G. Lucas,
Neil R. Bramley
Proceedings of the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting 2023
PDF
Project
Causal inference shapes counterfactual plausibility
Tadeg Quillien
,
Aba Szollosi
,
Neil R. Bramley
, Christopher G. Lucas
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Preprint
Demo
Project
How do instructions, examples, and testing shape task representations?
Aba Szollosi
,
Vlad Grigoras
,
Tadeg Quilien
, Christopher G. Lucas,
Neil R. Bramley
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Preprint
Demo
Modeling infant object perception as program induction
Jan-Philipp Fränken
, Christopher G. Lucas,
Neil R. Bramley
, Steven T. Piantadosi
Proceedings of the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting 2023
PDF
Preprint
Project
People seek easily interpretable information
Samuel J. Cheyette, Frederick Callaway,
Neil R. Bramley
, Jonathan D. Nelson, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
🏆 Computational Modeling Prize in Higher-level Cognition 🏆
PDF
Swipe and hold: Composing interventions in continuous time causal learning
Victor Btesh, David A. Lagnado, Maarten Speekenbrink,
Neil R. Bramley
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Preprint
Variational inference in dynamical active causal learning
Victor Btesh,
Neil R. Bramley
,
Jan-Philipp Fränken
, Maarten Speekenbrink, David A. Lagnado
Proceedings of the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting 2023
PDF
Extending counterfactual reasoning models to capture unconstrained social explanations
Stephanie Droop
,
Neil R. Bramley
Poster at 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Project
2022
Algorithms of Adaptation in Inductive Inference
Jan-Philipp Fränken
, Nikolaos C. Theodoropoulos,
Neil R. Bramley
Cognitive Psychology
, 137, 101506.
PDF
Preprint
Project
Children's active physical learning is as effective and goal-targeted as adults'
Neil R. Bramley
, Azzurra Ruggeri
Developmental Psychology
, 58(12), 2310–2321.
Preprint
Demo
Project
Children's failure to control variables may reflect adaptive decision making
Neil R. Bramley
, Angela Jones, Todd M. Gureckis, Azzurra Ruggeri
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
, 29, 2314–2324.
PDF
Preprint
Project
Discovering Common Hidden Causes in Sequences of Events
Simon Valentin,
Neil R. Bramley
, Christopher G. Lucas
Computational Brain & Behavior
PDF
Pre-registration
How do people generalize causal relations over objects? A non-parametric Bayesian account
Bonan Zhao
, Christopher G. Lucas,
Neil R. Bramley
Computational Brain & Behavior
, 5, 22-44.
DOI
PDF
Preprint
Project
The Paradox of Time in Dynamic Causal Systems
Robert E. Rehder, Zachary Davis,
Neil R. Bramley
Entropy
, 24, 863.
PDF
Redressing the Emperor in Causal Clothing - Commentary on 'The Emperor's New Markov Blankets' by Bruineberg, Dolega, Dewhurst and Baltieri
Victor Btesh,
Neil R. Bramley
, David A. Lagnado
Behavioral & Brain Sciences
, 45, e188.
PDF
Categorizing perceived causal events
Nicolas Marchant,
Bonan Zhao
,
Neil R. Bramley
, Diego Morales, Sergio E. Chaigneau
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Dissecting causal asymmetries in inductive generalization
Zeyu Xia*,
Bonan Zhao*
,
Tadeg Quillien
, Christopher G. Lucas
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Inferring epistemic intention in simulated physical microworlds
Stephanie Droop
,
Neil R. Bramley
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Project
Intuitions and Perceptual Constraints on Causal Learning from Dynamics
Tianwei Gong
,
Neil R. Bramley
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Demo
Project
Pre-registration
Powering up causal generalization: A model of human conceptual bootstrapping with adaptor grammars
Bonan Zhao
,
Neil R. Bramley
, Christopher G. Lucas
In
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Preprint
Project
2021
Cascades across networks are sufficient for the formation of echo chambers: An agent-based model
Jan-Philipp Fränken
, Toby D. Pilditch
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
PDF
Project
Expectations about future learning influence moment-to-moment feelings of suspense
Zhiwei Li,
Neil R. Bramley
, Todd M. Gureckis
Cognition & Emotion
, 35(6), 1099–1120.
PDF
Preprint
Project
Limits on Simulation Approaches in Intuitive Physics
Ethan J. Ludwin-Peery,
Neil R. Bramley
, Ernest Davis, Todd M. Gureckis
Cognitive Psychology
, 127, 101396.
Preprint
Preregistration
Observing effects in various contexts won’t give us general psychological theories - Commentary on 'The generalizability crisis' by Tal Yarkoni
Chris Donkin,
Aba Szollosi
,
Neil R. Bramley
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
, 45, e13.
PDF
Preprint
Bayesian Experimental Design for Intractable Models of Cognition
Simon Valentin*, Steven Kleinegesse*,
Neil R. Bramley
, Michael U. Gutmann, Christopher G. Lucas
Poster Presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design for Simulator Models of Cognition
Simon Valentin
, Steven Kleinegesse,
Neil R. Bramley
, Michael U. Gutmann, Christopher G. Lucas
AI for Science: Mind the Gaps
– Workshop at NeurIPS
Workshop
Building Object-based Causal Programs for Human-like Generalization
Bonan Zhao
, Christopher G. Lucas,
Neil R. Bramley
Causal Inference & Machine Learning: Why now?
– Workshop at NeurIPS
PDF
Poster
Workshop
Know your network: Sensitivity to structure in social learning
Jan-Philipp Fränken
,
Simon Valentin
, Christopher G. Lucas,
Neil R. Bramley
Poster Presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Demo
Learning preventative and generative causal structures from point events in continuous time
Tianwei Gong
,
Neil R. Bramley
Causal Inference & Machine Learning: Why now?
– Workshop at NeurIPS
PDF
Workshop
2020
Belief revision in a micro-social network: Modeling sensitivity to statistical dependencies in social learning
Jan-Philipp Fränken
, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, Adam B. Moore,
Neil R. Bramley
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Project
Preregistration
Broken physics: A conjunction fallacy effect in intuitive physical reasoning
Ethan J. Ludwin-Peery,
Neil R. Bramley
, Ernest Davis, Todd M. Gureckis
Psychological Science
, 31 (12), 1602-1611.
PDF
Preprint
Preregistration
Causal structure learning in continuous systems
Zach J. Davis,
Neil R. Bramley
, Robert E. Rehder
Frontiers in Psychology
, 11, 244.
PDF
The paradox of time in dynamic causal systems
Zach J. Davis,
Neil R. Bramley
, Robert E. Rehder
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
What you didn’t see: Prevention and generation in continuous time causal induction
Tianwei Gong
,
Neil R. Bramley
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Preregistration
Contrasting RNN-based and simulation-based models of human physical parameter inference
Héctor Otero Mediero
,
Neil R. Bramley
Poster Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Preprint
Human dynamic control under changing goals
Zach J. Davis, Todd M. Gureckis, Robert E. Rehder,
Neil R. Bramley
Causal learning for decision making workshop
— Workshop at ICLR
PDF
Learning hidden causal structure from temporal data
Simon Valentin,
Neil R. Bramley
, Christopher G. Lucas
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Project
2019
Testing one or multiple: Beliefs about sparsity affect causal experimentation
Anna Coenen, Azzurra Ruggeri,
Neil R. Bramley
, Todd M. Gureckis
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition
45(11), 1923-1941
🏆 Early Career Award to Coenen, Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science, Div 3 APA 🏆
PDF
Preprint
Project
Active physical inference via reinforcement learning
Shuaiji Li, Yu Sun, Sijia Liu, Tianyu Wang, Todd M. Gureckis,
Neil R. Bramley
In
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Project
Intervening in time
Neil R. Bramley
, Tobias Gerstenberg, Ralf Mayrhofer, David A. Lagnado
In
Time and Causality in the Sciences
(Chapter 6)
Preprint
Limits on the use of simulation in physical reasoning
Ethan J. Ludwin-Peery,
Neil R. Bramley
, Ernest Davis, Todd M. Gureckis
In
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Project
The critical moment is coming: Modeling the dynamics of suspense
Zhiwei Li,
Neil R. Bramley
, Todd M. Gureckis
In
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Project
2018
A causal model approach to dynamic control
Zach J. Davis,
Neil R. Bramley
, Robert E. Rehder, Todd M. Gureckis
In
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Causal structure learning with continuous variables in continuous time
Zach J. Davis,
Neil R. Bramley
, Robert E. Rehder
In
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Children's causal interventions combine discrimination and confirmation
Yuan Meng,
Neil R. Bramley
, Fei Xu
In
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Grounding compositional hypothesis generation in specific instances
Neil R. Bramley
, Anselm Rothe, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Fei Xu, Todd M. Gureckis
In
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Project
Slides
Workshop
Intuitive experimentation in the physical world
Neil R. Bramley
, Tobias Gerstenberg, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Todd M. Gureckis
Cognitive Psychology
, (195), pp. 9–38
PDF
Preprint
Project
Slides
Press
Time in causal structure learning
Neil R. Bramley
, Tobias Gerstenberg, Ralf Mayrhofer, David A. Lagnado
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition
PDF
2017
Beliefs about sparsity affect causal experimentation
Anna Coenen,
Neil R. Bramley
, Azzurra Ruggeri, Todd M. Gureckis
In
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Causal learning from interventions and dynamics in continuous time
Neil R. Bramley
, Ralf Mayrhofer, Tobias Gerstenberg, David A. Lagnado
In
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
Demo
Video
Constructing the world: Active causal learning in cognition
Neil R. Bramley
Unpublished PhD thesis
, UCL
🏆 2017 British Psychological Society Award for Doctoral Work in Cognition 🏆
PDF
Project
Formalizing Neurath's ship: Approximate algorithms for online causal learning
Neil R. Bramley
, Peter Dayan, Thomas L. Griffiths, David A. Lagnado
Psychological Review
, (124), 3, pp. 301–338
PDF
Preprint
Project
Strategic exploration in human adaptive control
Eric Schulz, Edgar D. Klenske,
Neil R. Bramley
, Maarten Speekenbrink
In
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PDF
2016
Children's Use of Interventions to Learn Causal Structure
Teresa McCormack,
Neil R. Bramley
, Caren Frosch, Fiona Patrick, David A. Lagnado
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
, (141), pp. 1–22
PDF
Natural science: Active learning in dynamic physical microworlds
Neil R. Bramley
, Tobias Gerstenberg, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
In
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
, Austin, TX, pp. 2567–2573
PDF
Project
2015
Conservative forgetful scholars: How people learn causal structure through interventions
Neil R. Bramley
, David A. Lagnado, Maarten Speekenbrink
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition
, (41), 3, pp. 708–731
PDF
Exp 1
Exp 2
Staying afloat on Neurath's boat: Heuristics for sequential causal learning
Neil R. Bramley
, Peter Dayan, David A. Lagnado
In
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
, pp. 262–267
PDF
Demo
2014
Book Review: Future-Minded: The Psychology of Agency and Control by Magda Osman
Neil R. Bramley
The London School of Economics Review of Books
Link
The order of things: Inferring causal structure from temporal patterns
Neil R. Bramley
, Tobias Gerstenberg, David A. Lagnado
In
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
, pp. 236–242
PDF
Demo
Dataset
What should causal learners value?
Neil R. Bramley
, Jonanthan D. Nelson, Maarten Speekenbrink, Vincenzo Crupi, David A Lagnado
Poster presented at
The Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
PDF
2013
Mechanisms of active causal learning
Neil R. Bramley
, Maarten Speekenbrink, David A. Lagnado
Poster presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
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