| 2025 | CogSci | Idiosyncratic but not opaque: Linguistic conventions formed in reference games are interpretable by nave humans and vision-language models. | Veronica Boyce, Ben Prystawski, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Michael C. Frank |
| 2025 | CogSci | Language and Experience: A Computational Model of Social Learning in Complex Novel Tasks. | Cdric Colas, Tracey Mills, Ben Prystawski, Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman, Jacob Andreas, Joshua B. Tenenbaum |
| 2025 | CogSci | Thinking fast, slow, and everywhere in between in humans and language models. | Ben Prystawski, Noah D. Goodman |
| 2025 | CogSci | Scaling up the think-aloud method. | Daniel Wurgaft, Ben Prystawski, Kanishk Gandhi, Cedegao E. Zhang, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Noah D. Goodman |
| 2024 | CogSci | Naturalistic Transmission of Causal Knowledge between Machines and Humans. | Cdric Colas, Tracey Mills, Ben Prystawski, Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman, Jacob Andreas, Josh Tenenbaum |
| 2023 | CogSci | Cultural reinforcement learning: a framework for modeling cumulative culture on a limited channel. | Ben Prystawski, Dilip Arumugam, Noah D. Goodman |
| 2023 | CogSci | Psychologically-informed chain-of-thought prompts for metaphor understanding in large language models. | Ben Prystawski, Paul H. Thibodeau, Christopher Potts, Noah D. Goodman |
| 2023 | CogSci | Toward a normative theory of (self-)management by goal-setting. | Nishad Singhi, Florian Mohnert, Ben Prystawski, Falk Lieder |
| 2021 | CogSci | Modelling Recognition in Human Puzzle Solving. | Ben Prystawski, Rebekah Gelpi, Chris Lucas, Daphna Buchsbaum |
| 2020 | CogSci | Incremental Hypothesis Revision in Causal Reasoning Across Development. | Rebekah Gelpi, Ben Prystawski, Christopher Lucas, Daphna Buchsbaum |
| 2020 | CogSci | Tracing the Emergence of Gendered Language in Childhood. | Ben Prystawski, Erin Grant, Aida Nematzadeh, Spike W. S. Lee, Suzanne Stevenson, Yang Xu |
| 2020 | EDM | Improving Short and Long-term Learning in an Online Homework System. | Ben Prystawski, Jacob Nogas, Andrew Petersen, Joseph Jay Williams |