| 2025 | CogSci | Who drew this? Children appreciate visual style differently than adults. | Tal Boger, Chaz Firestone, Shari Liu |
| 2025 | CogSci | Individual differences in habituation predict dishabituation magnitude in adults and infants. | Anjie Cao, Qiong Cao, Michael C. Frank, Shari Liu |
| 2025 | CogSci | Surprise isn't symmetrical: Adults' looking suggests non-perceptual considerations during dishabituation. | Qiong Cao, Anjie Cao, Gal Raz, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Shari Liu |
| 2025 | CogSci | Perception as a Foundation for Common-Sense Theories of the World. | Abdul-Rahim Deeb, Kevin A. Smith, Shari Liu, Judith E. Fan |
| 2025 | CogSci | Pushing people: the neural basis of social interaction perception. | Minjae Kim, Miriam Hauptman, Shari Liu |
| 2025 | CogSci | Putting it together: Interactions between domains of cognition. | Shari Liu, Joseph Outa |
| 2025 | CogSci | Adults hold two parallel causal frameworks for reasoning about people's minds, actions and bodies. | Joseph Outa, Shari Liu |
| 2023 | CogSci | Violations of physical and psychological expectations in the human adult brain. | Shari Liu, Kirsten Lydic, Lingjie Mei, Rebecca Saxe |
| 2022 | CogSci | Using fMRI to study the neural basis of violation-of-expectation. | Shari Liu, Kirsten Lydic, Sabrina Hsiao-Ling Piccolo, Rebecca Saxe |
| 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 | 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 | Look before you leap: Quantitative tradeoffs between peril and reward in action understanding. | Nensi Gjata, Tomer D. Ullman, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Shari Liu |
| 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 | People's perception of others' risk preferences. | Shari Liu, John McCoy, Tomer D. Ullman |
| 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 |