| 2025 | CogSci | The Role of Compositionality in Children's Creating Representations of Large Exact Numbers: A Case Study of the Number Five. | Yiqiao Wang, Susan Carey, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2023 | CogSci | Do school-age children learn that 2 x 3 = 3 x 2 relying on previous intuitions? | Marie Amalric, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Manuela Piazza |
| 2023 | CogSci | Infants Infer Social Relationships between Individuals who Engage in Imitative Social Interactions. | Vanessa Kudrnova, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Ashley J. Thomas |
| 2022 | CogSci | Eight-Month-Old Infants' Social Evaluations of Agents Who Act on False Beliefs. | Brandon Woo, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2021 | CogSci | Enhancing Preschool Readiness: Evidence from a Home-based Game to Improve 5-year-old Children's Mastery of Symbolic Numbers and Concepts. | Akshita Srinivasan, Laura Mullertz, Chrissie F. Carvalho, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2021 | CogSci | Who Needs More Help? Sixteen-Month-Old Infants Prefer to Look at and Reach for Helpers who Help with Harder Tasks. | Brandon Woo, Shari Liu, Hyowon Gweon, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2021 | CogSci | Open-Minded, Not Nave: Three-Month-Old Infants Encode Objects as the Goals of Other People's Reaches. | Brandon Woo, Shari Liu, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2021 | CogSci | Limits to Early Mental State Reasoning: Fourteen- to 15-Month-Old Infants Appreciate Whether Others Can See Objects, But Not Others' Experiences of Objects. | Brandon Woo, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2021 | ICML | AGENT: A Benchmark for Core Psychological Reasoning. | Tianmin Shu, Abhishek Bhandwaldar, Chuang Gan, Kevin A. Smith, Shari Liu, Dan Gutfreund, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tomer D. Ullman |
| 2020 | CogSci | The fine structure of surprise in intuitive physics: when, why, and how much? | Kevin Smith, Lingjie Mei, Shunyu Yao, Jiajun Wu, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Josh Tenenbaum, Tomer D. Ullman |
| 2020 | CogSci | Look before you leap: Quantitative tradeoffs between peril and reward in action understanding. | Nensi Gjata, Tomer D. Ullman, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Shari Liu |
| 2020 | CogSci | Infants use imitation but not comforting or social synchrony to evaluate those in social interactions. | Ashley J. Thomas, Rebecca Saxe, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2020 | CogSci | How to Help Best: Infants' Changing Understanding of Multistep Actions Informs their Evaluations of Helping. | Brandon Woo, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2019 | CogSci | Hard choices: Children's understanding of the cost of action selection. | Shari Liu, Fiery Cushman, Samuel Gershman, Wouter Kool, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2019 | CogSci | Draping an Elephant: Uncovering Children's Reasoning About Cloth-Covered Objects. | Tomer D. Ullman, Eliza Kosoy, Ilker Yildirim, Amir Arsalan Soltani, Max H. Siegel, Josh Tenenbaum, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2017 | CogSci | What's worth the effort: Ten-month-old infants infer the value of goals from the costs of actions. | Shari Liu, Tomer D. Ullman, Josh Tenenbaum, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2013 | CogSci | Minimal Nativism: How does cognitive development get off the ground? | Tomer D. Ullman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Noah D. Goodman, Shimon Ullman, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2012 | CogSci | Infants form expectations about others' emotions based on context and perceptual access. | Amy Skerry, Mina Cikara, Susan Carey, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Rebecca Saxe |