| 2025 | CogSci | Exploring the role of visual attention in relational reasoning across two cultures. | Alexandra Carstensen, Shanthi Varshini Kuppa, Cheng Xu, Yujin Jeong, Meizi Jin, Ai Nghi Diep, Youngon Choi, Caren M. Walker |
| 2025 | CogSci | Does normality influence children's causal selections? | Salih Can Ozdemir, Caren M. Walker |
| 2025 | CogSci | Reasoning about similar causal structures among mechanical systems. | Alexandra Rett, Micah B. Goldwater, Caren M. Walker |
| 2024 | CogSci | Young children adapt their search behavior for necessary versus merely possible outcomes. | Luisa Andreuccioli, Sophie Mazor, Katarina Begus, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Stephanie Denison, Caren M. Walker |
| 2024 | CogSci | Cognitive diversity in context: US-China differences in children's reasoning, visual attention, and social cognition. | Alexandra Carstensen, Anjie Cao, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Di Liu, Yichun Liu, Minh Khong Bui, Jiayi Wang-Zhao, Ai Nghi Diep, Qi Han, Michael C. Frank, Caren M. Walker |
| 2024 | CogSci | The Hair Club for Boys: How children and adults judge disparate impact rules. | Aarthi Popat, Jamie Amemiya, Gail D. Heyman, Caren M. Walker |
| 2024 | CogSci | Schema Drift: Relational Concept Stability Across Repeated Comparison. | Richard Vagnino, Caren M. Walker |
| 2023 | CogSci | Cognitive diversity in context: US-China developmental trajectories on 4 tasks in 3-12yos. | Alexandra Carstensen, Anjie Cao, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Di Liu, Yichun Liu, Minh Khong Bui, Jiayi Wang-Zhao, Qi Han, Caren M. Walker, Michael C. Frank |
| 2023 | CogSci | Relational abstraction in early childhood: Three cultures and three trajectories. | Alexandra Carstensen, Minju Kim, Gayoung Kim, Meizi Jin, Minjin Kang, Youngon Choi, Caren M. Walker |
| 2023 | CogSci | Children Use Causality to Guide Question Asking. | Elizabeth Lapidow, Amberley R. Stein, Caren M. Walker |
| 2022 | CogSci | The Role of Alternatives in Children's Reasoning about Constrained Choices. | Jamie Amemiya, Gail D. Heyman, Caren M. Walker |
| 2022 | CogSci | Bridging cultural and cognitive perspectives on similarity reasoning. | Alexandra Carstensen, Chiara Saponaro, Michael C. Frank, Caren M. Walker |
| 2022 | CogSci | Reasoning from Samples to Populations: Children Use Variability Information to Predict Novel Outcomes. | Elizabeth Lapidow, Mariel K. Goddu, Caren M. Walker |
| 2022 | CogSci | Clarifying the Causal Logic of a Classic Control of Variables Task. | Elizabeth Lapidow, Caren M. Walker |
| 2022 | CogSci | Exploration as a Learning Strategy to Support Children's Pattern Learning. | Tricia J. Ngoon, Vivian Leung, Micah B. Goldwater, Caren M. Walker |
| 2022 | CogSci | Children's Recognition of Shared Causal Structure in Mechanical Systems. | Alexandra Rett, Micah B. Goldwater, Caren M. Walker |
| 2021 | CogSci | How People Make Causal Judgments about Unprecedented Societal Events. | Jamie Amemiya, Gail D. Heyman, Caren M. Walker |
| 2021 | CogSci | How do the semantic properties of visual explanations guide causal inference? | Holly Huey, Caren M. Walker, Judith E. Fan |
| 2021 | CogSci | Preschoolers' Spontaneous Gesture Production Predicts Analogical Transfer. | Minju Kim, Caren M. Walker |
| 2021 | CogSci | Knowing the Shape of the Solution: Causal Structure Constrains Evaluation of Possible Causes. | Elizabeth Lapidow, Junyi Chu, Caren M. Walker |
| 2021 | CogSci | Children's Use of Causal Structure When Making Similarity Judgments. | Alexandra Rett, Jamie Amemiya, Micah B. Goldwater, Caren M. Walker |
| 2020 | CogSci | Stereotypes Decrease Children's Tendency to Acknowledge Constraints on Choice. | Jamie Amemiya, Elizabeth Mortenson, Sohee Ahn, Caren M. Walker, Gail D. Heyman |
| 2020 | CogSci | Explanation Supports Hypothesis Generation in Learning. | Erik Brockbank, Caren M. Walker |
| 2020 | CogSci | Certain to be surprised: A preference for novel causal outcomes develops in early childhood. | Mariel K. Goddu, Caren M. Walker |
| 2020 | CogSci | What else could happen? Two-, three-, and four-year-olds use variability information to infer novel causal outcomes. | Mariel K. Goddu, Caren M. Walker |
| 2020 | CogSci | Exploration Decisions Precede and Improve Explicit Uncertainty Judgments in Preschoolers. | Elizabeth Lapidow, Isabella Killeen, Caren M. Walker |
| 2020 | CogSci | Knowing when to quit: Children consider access to solutions when deciding whether to persist. | Alexandra Rett, Caren M. Walker |
| 2019 | CogSci | When Graph Comprehension Is An Insight Problem. | Amy Rae Fox, James D. Hollan, Caren M. Walker |
| 2019 | CogSci | Learning to Recognize Uncertainty: Effects of Disconfirming Evidence on Confidence Scale Use in Preschoolers. | Isabella Killeen, Caren M. Walker |
| 2019 | CogSci | Does the intuitive scientist conduct informative experiments?: Children's early ability to select and learn from their own interventions. | Elizabeth Lapidow, Caren M. Walker |
| 2019 | CogSci | Thinking counterfactually supports children's ability to conduct a controlled test of a hypothesis. | Angela Nyhout, Alana Iannuzziello, Caren M. Walker, Patricia Ganea |
| 2019 | CogSci | "I Never Even Considered That!": Investigating explanations for adults' failures to learn conjunctive causal rules. | Alexandra Rett, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Koeun Choi, Caren M. Walker |
| 2019 | CogSci | The Design of the Learning Environment Shapes Preschoolers' Causal Inference. | Alexandra Rett, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Caren M. Walker |
| 2019 | CogSci | Children's causal inferences about past vs. future events. | Katharine Tillman, Caren M. Walker |
| 2018 | CogSci | Considering alternatives facilitates anomaly detection in preschoolers. | Jae Engle, Caren M. Walker |
| 2018 | CogSci | Toddlers and Adults Simultaneously Track Multiple Hypotheses in a Causal Learning Task. | Mariel K. Goddu, Caren M. Walker |
| 2017 | CogSci | The paradox of relational development is not universal: Abstract reasoning develops differently across cultures. | Alexandra Carstensen, Caren M. Walker |
| 2017 | CogSci | More than meets the eye: Early relational reasoning cannot be reduced to perceptual heuristics. | Caren M. Walker, 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 |
| 2014 | CHI | Learning online via prompts to explain. | Joseph Jay Williams, Geza Kovacs, Caren M. Walker, Samuel G. Maldonado, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2014 | CogSci | Language acquisition and the onset of relational reasoning in infants. | Caren M. Walker, Samantha Hubachek, Alison Gopnik |
| 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 |
| 2013 | CogSci | Effects of Explaining Anomalies on the Generation and Evaluation of Hypotheses. | Joseph Jay Williams, Caren M. Walker, Samuel G. Maldonado, Tania Lombrozo |
| 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 |
| 2012 | CogSci | Explaining increases belief revision in the face of (many) anomalies. | Joseph Jay Williams, Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2011 | CogSci | Early Exposure to Pictures Facilitates Development of Referential Understanding. | Caren M. Walker, Lisa Walker, Patricia Ganea |