| 2025 | CogSci | New Perspectives in Computational Modeling of Human Attention. | Ilker Yildirim |
| 2025 | NAACL | L3GO: Language Agents with Chain-of-3D-Thoughts for Generating Unconventional Objects. | Yutaro Yamada, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Bill Yuchen Lin, Jack Hessel, Ilker Yildirim, Yejin Choi |
| 2024 | CogSci | Generative Semantic Transformation Process: A Case Study in Goal Prediction via Online Bayesian Language Inference. | Lorenss Martinsons, John Muchovej, Ilker Yildirim |
| 2024 | CogSci | An Intuitive Physics Approach to Modeling Melodic Expectation. | Breanna K. Nguyen, Ilker Yildirim |
| 2023 | CogSci | Perception of Mooney Faces: Extreme Generalization through Inverse Rendering? | Shreya Kapoor, Maximilian Weiherer, Max H. Siegel, Amir Arsalan Soltani, Ilker Yildirim, Josh Tenenbaum, Bernhard Egger |
| 2023 | CogSci | Where does the flow go? Humans automatically predict liquid pathing with coarse-grained simulation. | Yuting Zhang, Mario Belledonne, Tristan Yates, Ilker Yildirim |
| 2023 | EMNLP | When are Lemons Purple? The Concept Association Bias of Vision-Language Models. | Yingtian Tang, Yutaro Yamada, Yoyo Zhang, Ilker Yildirim |
| 2022 | CogSci | Perception of liquids relies on generalizable, physics-based representations. | Yuting Zhang, Wenyan Bi, Ilker Yildirim |
| 2021 | CogSci | Automatic computation of navigational affordances explains selective processing of geometry in scene perception: behavioral and computational evidence. | Mario Belledonne, Ilker Yildirim |
| 2021 | CogSci | Perception of soft materials relies on physics-based object representations: Behavioral and computational evidence. | Wenyan Bi, Aalap D. Shah, Kimberly W. Wong, Brian J. Scholl, Ilker Yildirim |
| 2021 | CogSci | Detecting the involvement of agents through physical reasoning. | Michael Lopez-Brau, Joseph Kwon, Breanna McBean, Ilker Yildirim, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2021 | CogSci | Seeing in the dark: Testing deep neural network and analysis-by-synthesis accounts of 3D shape perception with highly degraded images. | Hakan Yilmaz, Gargi Singh, Bernhard Egger, Josh Tenenbaum, Ilker Yildirim |
| 2020 | CogSci | Modeling temporal attention in dynamic scenes: Hypothesis-driven resource allocation using adaptive computation explains both objective tracking performance and subjective effort judgments. | Eivinas Butkus, Mario Belledonne, Brian J. Scholl, Ilker Yildirim |
| 2020 | CogSci | Inverse Rendering Best Explains Face Perception Under Extreme Illuminations. | Bernhard Egger, Max H. Siegel, Riya Arora, Amir Arsalan Soltani, Ilker Yildirim, Josh Tenenbaum |
| 2019 | CogSci | Real-time inference of physical properties in dynamic scenes. | Kevin Smith, Mario Belledonne, Ilker Yildirim, Jiajun Wu, Josh Tenenbaum |
| 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 |
| 2019 | CogSci | Explaining intuitive difficulty judgments by modeling physical effort and risk. | Ilker Yildirim, Basil Saeed, Grace Bennett-Pierre, Tobias Gerstenberg, Josh Tenenbaum, Hyowon Gweon |
| 2017 | CogSci | Physical problem solving: Joint planning with symbolic, geometric, and dynamic constraints. | Ilker Yildirim, Tobias Gerstenberg, Basil Saeed, Marc Toussaint, Josh Tenenbaum |
| 2017 | CogSci | Causal and compositional generative models in online perception. | Ilker Yildirim, Michael Janner, Mario Belledonne, Christian Wallraven, Winrich Freiwald, Josh Tenenbaum |
| 2017 | CogSci | Workshop proposal: Deep Learning in Computational Cognitive Science. | Ilker Yildirim, Josh Tenenbaum |
| 2017 | QRS | Automated Extraction of Feature Models from Android Based Portable Devices. | Ilker Yildirim, Hasan Szer |
| 2016 | CogSci | Integrating identification and perception: A case study of familiar and unfamiliar face processing. | Kelsey R. Allen, Ilker Yildirim, Josh Tenenbaum |
| 2016 | CogSci | Integrating physical reasoning and visual object recognition for fully occluded scene interpretation. | Ilker Yildirim, Max H. Siegel, Josh Tenenbaum |
| 2015 | CogSci | Humans predict liquid dynamics using probabilistic simulation. | Christopher Bates, Peter W. Battaglia, Ilker Yildirim, Joshua B. Tenenbaum |
| 2015 | CogSci | Efficient analysis-by-synthesis in vision: A computational framework, behavioral tests, and modeling neuronal representations. | Ilker Yildirim, Tejas D. Kulkarni, Winrich Freiwald, Joshua B. Tenenbaum |
| 2014 | CogSci | Transfer of object shape knowledge across visual and haptic modalities. | Goker Erdogan, Ilker Yildirim, Robert A. Jacobs |
| 2013 | CogSci | Linguistic Variability and Adaptation in Quantifier Meanings. | Ilker Yildirim, Judith Degen, Michael K. Tanenhaus, T. Florian Jaeger |