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View article: Learning Children’s Conceptual Spaces using Deep Metric Learning.
Learning Children’s Conceptual Spaces using Deep Metric Learning. Open
Children learn to represent the world around them in meaningful categories that allow them to generalize past experiences. Understanding how these categorical representations develop is fundamental to cognitive science. However, capturing …
View article: Children, but not capuchins, rationally integrate social and physical information when deciding which actions to copy
Children, but not capuchins, rationally integrate social and physical information when deciding which actions to copy Open
Unlike other primates, young children have been shown to exhibit seemingly irrational overimitation—faithfully copying unnecessary steps from a demonstration. We tested 3- to 5-year-old children (N = 39) and capuchin monkeys (N = 21) on a …
View article: Evaluating Dogs’ Real‐World Visual Environment and Attention
Evaluating Dogs’ Real‐World Visual Environment and Attention Open
Dogs have a unique evolutionary relationship with humans, yet little is known about the visual information available to them or how they direct their visual attention within their environment. The present study, inspired by comparable work…
View article: Resource-rational belief revision can mitigate as well as amplify polarization
Resource-rational belief revision can mitigate as well as amplify polarization Open
People's beliefs sometimes diverge after observing the same information, which has been interpreted as evidence of irrationality. This behaviour has been proposed to result from people's limited cognitive resources and motivated reasoning,…
View article: An introduction to rational constructivism in cognitive development
An introduction to rational constructivism in cognitive development Open
Rational constructivism is a contemporary theory of cognitive development that aims to reconcile the existence of sophisticated cognitive abilities early in ontological development with the profound cognitive change we observe across child…
View article: Investigating Sensitivity to Shared Information and Personal Experience in Children’s Use of Majority Information
Investigating Sensitivity to Shared Information and Personal Experience in Children’s Use of Majority Information Open
Children and adults alike rely on others to learn about the world, but also need to be able to determine the strength of both their own evidence as well as the evidence that other people provide, particularly when different sources of info…
View article: Investigating sensitivity to shared information and personal experience in children’s use of majority information
Investigating sensitivity to shared information and personal experience in children’s use of majority information Open
Children and adults alike rely on others to learn about the world, but also need to be able to determine the strength of both their own evidence as well as the evidence that other people provide, particularly when different sources of info…
View article: Investigating sensitivity to shared information and personal experience in children’s use of majority information
Investigating sensitivity to shared information and personal experience in children’s use of majority information Open
Children and adults alike rely on others to learn about the world, but also need to be able to determine the strength of both their own evidence as well as the evidence that other people provide, particularly when different sources of info…
View article: Synchronous citizen science with dogs
Synchronous citizen science with dogs Open
Citizen science approaches have grown in popularity over the years, partly due to their ability to reach a wider audience and produce more generalizable samples. In dogs, these studies, though, have been limited in their controls over mate…
View article: How Red Is a Ladybeetle? Examining People’s Notions of Biological Variability
How Red Is a Ladybeetle? Examining People’s Notions of Biological Variability Open
People often display essentialist biases, which can lead them to underestimate within-species variability. This bias is especially pronounced when traits are described as advantageous for survival. However, it is unclear whether this bias …
View article: Categorizing the Visual Environment and Analyzing the Visual Attention of Dogs
Categorizing the Visual Environment and Analyzing the Visual Attention of Dogs Open
Dogs have a unique evolutionary relationship with humans and serve many important roles e.g. search and rescue, blind assistance, emotional support. However, few datasets exist to categorize visual features and objects available to dogs, a…
View article: Synchronous Citizen Science with Dogs
Synchronous Citizen Science with Dogs Open
Citizen science approaches have grown in popularity over the years, partly due to their ability to reach a wider audience and produce more generalizable samples. In dogs, these studies, though, have been limited in their experimental contr…
View article: Categorizing Dog’s Real World Visual Environment
Categorizing Dog’s Real World Visual Environment Open
Dogs have a unique evolutionary relationship with humans yet little is known about the visual information available to them or how they direct their visual attention within their environment. The present study, inspired by comparable work …
View article: Can Children and Adults Balance Majority Size with Information Quality in Learning from Preferences?
Can Children and Adults Balance Majority Size with Information Quality in Learning from Preferences? Open
We investigate how 3- to 5-year-old US and Canadian children (N = 189) and US adults (N = 241) balance the number of endorsements for a given option with the quality of the informants’ source of information when deciding which of two boxes…
View article: Children as cultural explorers: How imitation, pedagogy, and selective trust prepare children for learning in the cultural niche
Children as cultural explorers: How imitation, pedagogy, and selective trust prepare children for learning in the cultural niche Open
Human societies have developed over millennia to living in a variety of different social and physical environments, accumulating adaptations too complex and interdependent to be developed independently within the span of a single generatio…
View article: ManyDogs 1: A Multi-Lab Replication Study of Dogs’ Pointing Comprehension
ManyDogs 1: A Multi-Lab Replication Study of Dogs’ Pointing Comprehension Open
To promote collaboration across canine science, address replicability issues, and advance open science practices within animal cognition, we have launched the ManyDogs consortium, modeled on similar ManyX projects in other fields. We aimed…
View article: Characterizing Shifts in Strategy in Active Function Learning
Characterizing Shifts in Strategy in Active Function Learning Open
We investigate people’s use of strategies for sampling data in an active learning task. In the spirit of resource-rational analysis, we argue that people may often use effective heuristics to guide sampling in lieu of more computationally …
View article: Charting children’s fruit categories with Markov-Chain Monte Carlo with People
Charting children’s fruit categories with Markov-Chain Monte Carlo with People Open
Uncovering how categories develop through childhood is crucial for cognitive science. However, even for simple domains, categories can be complex, making it challenging to access them experimentally, especially in developmental studies. Ma…
View article: ManyDogs 1: A multi-lab replication study of dogs' pointing comprehension
ManyDogs 1: A multi-lab replication study of dogs' pointing comprehension Open
To promote collaboration across canine science, address replicability issues, and advance open science practices within animal cognition, we have launched the ManyDogs consortium, modeled on similar ManyX projects in other fields. We aimed…
View article: ManyDogs Project: A Big Team Science Approach to Investigating Canine Behavior and Cognition
ManyDogs Project: A Big Team Science Approach to Investigating Canine Behavior and Cognition Open
Dogs have a special place in human history as the first domesticated species and play important roles in many cultures around the world.However, their role in scientific studies has been relatively recent.With a few notable exceptions (e.g…
View article: Evidence for abstract representations in children but not capuchin monkeys
Evidence for abstract representations in children but not capuchin monkeys Open
The use of abstract higher-level knowledge (also called overhypotheses) allows humans to learn quickly from sparse data and make predictions in new situations. Previous research has suggested that humans may be the only species capable of …
View article: Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children Open
Pretend play universally emerges during early childhood and may support the development of causal inference and counterfactual reasoning. However, the amount of time spent pretending, the value that adults place on pretence and the scaffol…
View article: ManyDogs Project: A Big Team Science Approach to Investigating Canine Behavior and Cognition
ManyDogs Project: A Big Team Science Approach to Investigating Canine Behavior and Cognition Open
Dogs have a special place in human history as the first domesticated species and play important roles in many cultures around the world. However, their role in scientific studies has been relatively recent. With a few notable exceptions (e…
View article: Head-Mounted Mobile Eye-Tracking in the Domestic Dog: A New Method
Head-Mounted Mobile Eye-Tracking in the Domestic Dog: A New Method Open
Humans rely on dogs for countless tasks, ranging from companionship to highly specialized detection work. In their daily lives, dogs must navigate a human-built visual world, yet comparatively little is known about what dogs visually atten…
View article: Learning Children’s Conceptual Spaces using Deep Metric Learning.
Learning Children’s Conceptual Spaces using Deep Metric Learning. Open
Children learn to represent the world around them in meaningful categories that allow them to generalize past experiences. Understanding how these categorical representations develop is fundamental to cognitive science. However, capturing …
View article: One- and two-year-olds grasp that causes must precede their effects
One- and two-year-olds grasp that causes must precede their effects Open
Knowing the temporal direction of causal relations is critical for producing desired outcomes and explaining events. Existing evidence suggests that children start to grasp that causes must precede their effects (the temporal priority prin…
View article: ManyDogs 1: A Multi-lab replication study of dogs' pointing comprehension (pre-registered report)
ManyDogs 1: A Multi-lab replication study of dogs' pointing comprehension (pre-registered report) Open
To promote collaboration across canine science, address reproducibility issues, and advance open science practices within animal cognition, we have launched the ManyDogs consortium, modeled on similar ManyX projects in other fields. We aim…
View article: Searching high and low: Domestic dogs’ understanding of solidity
Searching high and low: Domestic dogs’ understanding of solidity Open
Physical reasoning appears central to understanding how the world works, suggesting adaptive function across the animal kingdom. However, conclusive evidence for inferential reasoning about physical objects is limited to primates. We syste…