| 2025 | CogSci | Beyond Rewards: How Information Value and Time Horizon Shape Exploration. | Annya L. Dahmani, Dorsa Amir, Alison Gopnik |
| 2025 | CogSci | Children Spontaneously Design Curricula to Tackle Challenging Tasks. | Annya L. Dahmani, Eunice Yiu, Alison Gopnik |
| 2025 | CogSci | Understand Intrinsic Motivation in Causal Learning Through Exploration. | Fei Dai, Alison Gopnik |
| 2025 | CogSci | The cognitive science of caregiving. | Reut Shachnai, Julia A. Leonard, Alison Gopnik, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Lindsey J. Powell |
| 2025 | CogSci | Children use both controllability and variability for generalization. | Eunice Yiu, Anisa Noor Majhi, Shiry Ginosar, Kelsey R. Allen, Alison Gopnik |
| 2025 | ICLR | KiVA: Kid-inspired Visual Analogies for Testing Large Multimodal Models. | Eunice Yiu, Maan Qraitem, Anisa Noor Majhi, Charlie Wong, Yutong Bai, Shiry Ginosar, Alison Gopnik, Kate Saenko |
| 2024 | CogSci | Caregiver presence promotes judgements of exploration. | Annya L. Dahmani, Dorsa Amir, Ashley J. Thomas, Alison Gopnik |
| 2024 | CogSci | Enhancing Effects of Causal Scaffolding on Preschoolers' Analogical Reasoning Abilities. | Emily Rose Reagan, Verity Pinter, Mariel K. Goddu, Alison Gopnik |
| 2024 | CogSci | To observe or to bet? Investigating purely exploratory and purely exploitative actions in children, adults, and computational models. | Eunice Yiu, Kai Sandbrink, Alison Gopnik |
| 2023 | CogSci | Towards Understanding How Machines Can Learn Causal Overhypotheses. | Eliza Kosoy, David M. Chan, Adrian Liu, Jasmine Collins, Jessica B. Hamrick, Sandy Han Huang, Nan Rosemary Ke, Emily Rose Reagan, John F. Canny, Alison Gopnik |
| 2023 | CogSci | Flexible spatial memory in children: Different reference frames on different axes. | Benjamin Pitt, Sahra Aalaei, Alison Gopnik |
| 2023 | CogSci | Discovering New Functions in Everyday Tools by Children, Adults and LLM's. | Eunice Yiu, Alison Gopnik |
| 2022 | CogSci | Learning Causal Overhypotheses through Exploration in Children and Computational Models. | Eliza Kosoy, Adrian Liu, Jasmine Collins, David M. Chan, Jessica B. Hamrick, Sandy Han Huang, Nan Rosemary Ke, Bryanna Kaufmann, Alison Gopnik |
| 2022 | CogSci | Three-Dimensional Object Completion in Humans and Computational Models. | Eunice Yiu, Jasmine Collins, Alison Gopnik |
| 2022 | CogSci | Preschoolers and adults make inferences from novel metaphors. | Rebecca Zhu, Alison Gopnik |
| 2021 | CogSci | The Omniglot Jr. challenge; Can a model achieve child-level character generation and classification? | Eliza Kosoy, Masha Belyi, Charlie Snell, Brenden M. Lake, Josh Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik |
| 2021 | CogSci | "It Depends": How Children Reason about Stable and Unstable Causes. | Nadya Vasilyeva, Mei Murphy, Oce Bohra, Jenny Chen, Selena Xandra Cuevas, Samhita Katteri, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik |
| 2021 | CogSci | Providing explanations shifts preschoolers' metaphor preferences. | Rebecca Zhu, Mariel K. Goddu, Alison Gopnik |
| 2021 | CoRL | From Robot Learning To Robot Understanding: Leveraging Causal Graphical Models For Robotics. | Kaylene Caswell Stocking, Alison Gopnik, Claire J. Tomlin |
| 2020 | CogSci | The Origins of Common Sense in Humans and Machines. | Kevin Smith, Eliza Kosoy, Alison Gopnik, Deepak Pathak, Alan Fern, Josh Tenenbaum, Tomer D. Ullman |
| 2020 | CogSci | Toddlers and preschoolers use relational concepts to solve problems. | Mariel K. Goddu, Alison Gopnik |
| 2020 | CogSci | The Development of Creative Search Strategies. | Yuval Hart, Eliza Kosoy, Emily Liquin, Julia A. Leonard, Allyson Mackey, Alison Gopnik |
| 2020 | CogSci | Exploring Exploration: Comparing Children with Agents in Unified Exploration Environments. | Eliza Kosoy, Jasmine Collins, David M. Chan, Deepak Pathak, Pulkit Agrawal, Alison Gopnik |
| 2020 | CogSci | When Generic Language does not Promote Psychological Essentialism. | Nadya Vasilyeva, Alison Gopnik, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2020 | CogSci | 4- and 5-Year-Olds' Comprehension of Functional Metaphors. | Rebecca Zhu, Mariel K. Goddu, Alison Gopnik |
| 2020 | CogSci | When and how do toddlers in rural Western Kenya understand the referential nature of pictures? | Rebecca Zhu, Helen Pitchik, Lia Fernald, Alison Gopnik |
| 2019 | CogSci | Curiouser and Curiouser: Children's intrinsic exploration of mazes and its effects on reaching a goal. | Eliza Kosoy, Deepak Pathak, Pulkit Agrawal, Alison Gopnik |
| 2018 | CogSci | Workshop Understanding Exploration-Exploitation Trade-offs. | Elizabeth Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik, Celeste Kidd |
| 2018 | CogSci | Models of Human Scientific Discovery. | Robert L. Goldstone, Alison Gopnik, Paul Thagard, Tomer D. Ullman |
| 2018 | CogSci | Identifying the structure of hypotheses that guide search during development. | Doug Markant, Angela Jones, Thorsten Pachur, Alison Gopnik, Azzurra Ruggeri |
| 2018 | CogSci | Preschoolers adapt their exploratory strategies to the information structure of the task. | Nora Swaboda, Azzurra Ruggeri, Alison Gopnik |
| 2018 | EMNLP | Exploiting Attention to Reveal Shortcomings in Memory Models. | Kaylee Burns, Aida Nematzadeh, Erin Grant, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths |
| 2018 | EMNLP | Evaluating Theory of Mind in Question Answering. | Aida Nematzadeh, Kaylee Burns, Erin Grant, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths |
| 2017 | CogSci | I know what you need to know: Children's developing theory of mind and pedagogical evidence selection. | Ilona Bass, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto, Dhaya Ramarajan, Alison Gopnik, Henry Wellman |
| 2017 | CogSci | The Development of Structural Thinking about Social Categories. | Nadya Vasilyeva, Alison Gopnik, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2017 | CogSci | More than meets the eye: Early relational reasoning cannot be reduced to perceptual heuristics. | Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik |
| 2017 | CogSci | Desires influence 4- to 6-year-old children's probabilistic judgments. | Adrienne Wente, Mariel K. Goddu, Elyanah Posner, Teresa Garcia, Mara Fernndez Flecha, Alison Gopnik |
| 2016 | CogSci | The Relationship Between Inhibitory Control and Free Will Beliefs in 4-to 6-Year-Old-Children. | Adrienne Wente, Titus Ting, Rosie Aboody, Tamar Kushnir, Alison Gopnik |
| 2015 | CogSci | Learning to reason about desires: An infant training study. | Tiffany Doan, Stephanie Denison, Christopher G. Lucas, Alison Gopnik |
| 2015 | CogSci | The early emergence and puzzling decline of relational reasoning: Effects of prior knowledge and search on inferring 'same' and 'different'. | Caren M. Walker, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik |
| 2015 | CogSci | Culture, causal attributions, and development: A comparison of Chinese and U.S. 4-and 6-year-olds. | Adrienne Wente, Sophie Bridgers, Xin Zhao, Yixin Cui, Elizabeth Seiver, Zhanxing Li, Liqi Zhu, Alison Gopnik |
| 2014 | CogSci | Language acquisition and the onset of relational reasoning in infants. | Caren M. Walker, Samantha Hubachek, Alison Gopnik |
| 2014 | CogSci | Cultural variability in young children's folk intuitions of free will. | Adrienne Wente, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik, Xin Zhao, Liqi Zhu, Elizabeth Seiver |
| 2013 | CogSci | What if? Counterfactual reasoning, pretense, and the role of possible worlds. | Daphna Buchsbaum, Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik, Nick Chater, David Danks, Christopher G. Lucas, Charles Kemp, Eva Rafetseder, Josef Perner |
| 2013 | CogSci | 24-Month-Olds Engage in Relational Causal Reasoning. | Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik |
| 2013 | CogSci | Explaining to Others Prompts Children to Favor Inductively Rich Properties. | Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo, Cristine H. Legare, Alison Gopnik |
| 2012 | CogSci | Do I know that you know what you know? Modeling testimony in causal inference. | Daphna Buchsbaum, Sophie Bridgers, Andrew Whalen, Elizabeth Seiver, Thomas L. Griffiths, Alison Gopnik |
| 2012 | CogSci | Is that your final answer? The effects of neutral queries on children's choices. | Aaron Gonzalez, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik |
| 2012 | CogSci | Seeing who sees: Contrastive access helps children reason about other minds. | Kathie Pham, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik |
| 2012 | CogSci | Children's Causal Learning from Fiction: Assessing the Proximity Between Real and Fictional Worlds. | Caren M. Walker, Patricia Ganea, Alison Gopnik |
| 2012 | CogSci | Explaining Influences Children's Reliance on Evidence and Prior Knowledge in Causal Induction. | Caren M. Walker, Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik |
| 2011 | CogSci | A Simple Sequential Algorithm for Approximating Bayesian Inference. | Elizabeth Bonawitz, Stephanie Denison, Annie Chen, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths |
| 2011 | CogSci | Cross-domain variation in children's causal reasoning. | Elizabeth Seiver, Alison Gopnik |
| 1990 | Interspeech | Relations between thought and language in infancy. | Andrew N. Meltzoff, Alison Gopnik |