| 2025 | CogSci | Functional fixedness and cooties: Children solve insight problems faster when they learn functions from peers of a different gender. | Herrissa D. Lamothe, Karla E. Perez, Laura Schulz |
| 2025 | CogSci | Calculating probabilities from imagined possibilities: Limitations in 4-year-olds. | Brian Leahy, Vicente Vivanco, Samuel J. Cheyette, Kevin A. Smith, Lucy J. White, Roman Feiman, Laura Schulz, Joshua B. Tenenbaum |
| 2025 | CogSci | Intuitions about prosocial backfiring: Four to seven-year olds' understanding of when helping might cause offense. | Kiera Parece, Tomer D. Ullman, Laura Schulz |
| 2025 | CogSci | Not seeing it: What young children don't understand about attention. | Shengyi Wu, Laura Schulz |
| 2024 | CogSci | Ad Hoc Theories: How Social Interaction Helps Us Make Sense of the World. | Izabele Jonusaite, Karla E. Perez, Max H. Siegel, Laura Schulz |
| 2024 | CogSci | Connecting the dots: a comparative and developmental analysis of spatiotemporal pattern learning. | Tracey Mills, Nicole Coates, Alessandra Acadia Silva, Stephen Ferrigno, Laura Schulz, Josh Tenenbaum, Samuel J. Cheyette |
| 2024 | CogSci | Exploring Loophole Behavior: A Comparative Study of Autistic and Non-Autistic Populations. | Kiera Parece, Sophie Bridgers, Tomer D. Ullman, Laura Schulz |
| 2024 | CogSci | Knowing What Counts for Counting. | Karla E. Perez, Max H. Siegel, Nicole Coates, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2024 | CogSci | A region in human left prefrontal cortex selectively engaged in causal reasoning. | R. T. Pramod, Jessica Chomik, Laura Schulz, Nancy Kanwisher |
| 2024 | CogSci | Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see? Speaker use more redundant color adjectives when speaking to children than adults. | Maya Taliaferro, Laura Schulz |
| 2024 | CogSci | From the mouths of babes: Toddlers' early word production favors information in common ground. | Bradli Washington, Sienna Radifera, Melissa Kline Struhl, Laura Schulz |
| 2024 | CogSci | Children track variability in adult attention and plan interventions accordingly. | Shengyi Wu, Laura Schulz |
| 2024 | CogSci | How to Change a Mind: Adults and Children Use the Causal Structure of Theory of Mind to Intervene on Others' Behaviors. | Shengyi Wu, Laura Schulz, Rebecca Saxe |
| 2023 | CogSci | Representations of Abstract Relations in Early Childhood. | Nicole Coates, Max H. Siegel, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2023 | CogSci | Skirting the Sacred: Moral Violations Make Intentional Misunderstandings Worse. | Kiera Parece, Sophie Bridgers, Laura Schulz, Tomer D. Ullman |
| 2022 | CogSci | "Because I want to": Valuing goals for their own sake. | Junyi Chu, Laura Schulz |
| 2022 | CogSci | Preschoolers' sensitivity to abstract correlations in the properties of sets and functions. | Nicole Coates, Max H. Siegel, Junyi Chu, Melissa Kline, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2021 | CogSci | Loopholes, a Window into Value Alignment and the Learning of Meaning. | Sophie Bridgers, Laura Schulz, Tomer D. Ullman |
| 2021 | CogSci | Minds at play. | Junyi Chu, Laura Schulz |
| 2021 | CogSci | Explore, Exploit, Create: Inventing goals in play. | Sophia Diggs-Galligan, Junyi Chu, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2020 | CogSci | Exploratory play, rational action, and efficient search. | Junyi Chu, Laura Schulz |
| 2020 | CogSci | Preschoolers are Sensitive to their Performance Over Time. | Julia A. Leonard, Julia Sandler, Amanda Nerenberg, Aidan Rubio, Laura Schulz, Allyson Mackey |
| 2020 | CogSci | The Signature of All Things: Children Infer Knowledge States from Static Images. | Madeline Pelz, Laura Schulz, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2019 | CogSci | Query-guided visual search. | Junyi Chu, Jon Gauthier, Roger Levy, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2019 | CogSci | How can I help? Developmental change in the selectivity of two to four-year-olds' attempts to alleviate others' distress. | Regina N. Ebo, Laura Schulz |
| 2019 | CogSci | What if everybody did that?: Universalization as a mechanism of moral decision-making. | Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Laura Schulz, Josh Tenenbaum, Fiery Cushman |
| 2018 | CogSci | Cognitive pragmatism: Children flexibly choose between facts and conjectures. | Junyi Chu, Laura Schulz |
| 2018 | CogSci | Intuitive Statistics & Metacognition in Children and Adults. | Madeline Pelz, Laura Schulz |
| 2018 | CogSci | Children can use others' emotional expressions to infer their knowledge and predict their behaviors in classic false belief tasks. | Yang Wu, Jennah Haque, Laura Schulz |
| 2018 | CogSci | Toddlers Connect Emotional Responses to Epistemic States. | Yang Wu, Laura Schulz, Rebecca Saxe |
| 2017 | CogSci | Preschoolers and Infants Calibrate Persistence from Adult Models. | Julia A. Leonard, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Yuna Lee, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2017 | CogSci | Preschoolers appropriately allocate roles based on relative ability in a cooperative interaction. | Rachel Magid, Mary Depascale, Laura Schulz |
| 2017 | CogSci | Intuitive psychophysics: Children's exploratory play quantitatively tracks the discriminability of alternative hypotheses. | Rachel Magid, Max H. Siegel, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2017 | CogSci | Whoa! Aww ... Ohh ... Hee! and Mmm: Infants' nuanced distinctions about the probable causes of emotional expressions. | Yang Wu, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz |
| 2017 | CogSci | What do you really think? Children's ability to infer others' desires when emotional expressions change between social and nonsocial contexts. | Yang Wu, Laura Schulz |
| 2016 | CogSci | The Nave Utility Calculus unifies spatial and statistical routes to preference. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Felix Sun, Laura Schulz, Josh Tenenbaum |
| 2015 | CogSci | Beliefs about desires: Children's understanding of how knowledge and preference influence choice. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Emily Lydic, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2015 | CogSci | The nave utility calculus: Joint inferences about the costs and rewards of actions. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Laura Schulz, Joshua B. Tenenbaum |
| 2015 | CogSci | If at First You Don't Succeed: The Role of Evidence in Preschoolers' and Infants' Persistence. | Julia A. Leonard, Laura Schulz |
| 2015 | CogSci | Quit while you're ahead: Preschoolers' persistence and willingness to accept challenges are affected by social comparison. | Rachel Magid, Laura Schulz |
| 2015 | CogSci | Hypothesis-Space Constraints in Causal Learning. | Pedro Tsividis, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2015 | CogSci | Children's ability to infer beliefs and desires from emotional reactions. | Yang Wu, Chris L. Baker, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2015 | CogSci | A fine-grained understanding of emotions: Young children match within-valence emotional expressions to their causes. | Yang Wu, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz |
| 2014 | CogSci | To give a fish or to teach how to fish? Children weigh costs and benefits in considering what information to transmit. | Hyowon Gweon, Veronica Chu, Laura Schulz |
| 2014 | CogSci | Children consider prior knowledge and the cost of information both in learning from and teaching others. | Hyowon Gweon, Patrick Shafto, Laura Schulz |
| 2014 | CogSci | I'd do anything for a cookie (but I won't do that): Children's understanding of the costs and rewards underlying rational action. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Hyowon Gweon, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2014 | CogSci | Running to do evil: Costs incurred by perpetrators affect moral judgment. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Nathaniel Kim, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz |
| 2014 | CogSci | Interhemispheric integration of visual concepts in infancy. | Kimberly Scott, Laura Schulz |
| 2014 | CogSci | Black boxes: Hypothesis testing via indirect perceptual evidence. | Max H. Siegel, Rachel Magid, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2014 | CogSci | The Unintended Consequences of Checklists. | Elise A. Stave, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz |
| 2014 | CogSci | Information Selection in Noisy Environments with Large Action Spaces. | Pedro Tsividis, Samuel Gershman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2014 | CogSci | Joint inferences of belief and desire from facial expressions. | Yang Wu, Chris L. Baker, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2014 | CogSci | Preschoolers expect others to learn rationally from evidence. | Phyllis Yan, Rachel Magid, Laura Schulz |
| 2013 | CogSci | Exploration and Discovery in Children with Autism. | Hyowon Gweon, Hannah Pelton, Rebecca Saxe, Laura Schulz |
| 2013 | CogSci | Not so innocent: Reasoning about costs, competence, and culpability in very early childhood. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2013 | CogSci | Transitive and periphrastic sentences affect memory for simple causal scenes. | Melissa Kline, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz |
| 2013 | CogSci | Causal determinism in toddlers. | Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz |
| 2013 | CogSci | The invisible hand: Toddlers infer hidden agents when events occur probabilistically. | Yang Wu, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz |
| 2012 | CogSci | Children's sensitivity to informant's inductive efficiency and learner's epistemic states in pedagogical contexts. | Hyowon Gweon, Patrick Shafto, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2012 | CogSci | Enough is enough: Inductive sufficiency guides learners' ratings of informant helpfulness. | Patrick Shafto, Hyowon Gweon, Chris Fargen, Laura Schulz |
| 2011 | CogSci | Adults and school-aged children accurately evaluate sins of omission in pedagogical contexts. | Hyowon Gweon, Hannah Pelton, Laura Schulz |
| 2011 | CogSci | Children's comprehension and production of transitive sentences is sensitive to the causal structure of events. | Melissa Kline, Jesse Snedeker, Laura Schulz |
| 2011 | CogSci | Mind the Gap: Dispositional Agency Facilitates Toddlers' Causal Representations. | Paul J. Muentener, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Alexandra Horowitz, Laura Schulz |
| 2011 | CogSci | Toddlers' understanding of prediction, intervention, and means of transmission: When psychological outcomes are easier than physical ones. | Paul J. Muentener, Daniel Friel, Laura Schulz |