Publications

Wente A, Gopnik A, Fernández Flecha M, Garcia T, Buchsbaum D. (2022) Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

ManyDogs, Espinosa, J., Bray, E. E., Buchsbaum, D., Byosiere, S. M., Byrne, M., Freeman, M. S., Gnanadesikan, G. E., Guran, A., Horschler, D. J., Huber, L., Johnston, A. M., MacLean, E. L., Pelgrim, M. H., Santos, L., Silver, Z. A., Stevens, J. R., Völter, C. J., & Zipperling, L. (pre-registered report accepted in principle). ManyDogs 1: A Multi-Lab Replication Study of Dogs' Pointing Comprehension. Animal Behavior and Cognition.

Pelgrim, M.H., Espinosa, J., & Buchsbaum, D. (2022) Head-Mounted Mobile Eye-tracking in the Domestic Dog: A New Method. Behavior Research Methods.

Pelgrim, M. H. & Buchsbaum, D. (2022) Categorizing Dogs’ Real World Visual Statistics. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Leon Villagra, P., Ehrlich, I., Lucas, C., & Buchsbaum, D. (2022). Uncovering children’s concepts and conceptual change. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Gelpi, R. A., Saxena, N., Lifchits, G., Buchsbaum, D., & Lucas, C. G. (2021). Sampling heuristics for active function learning. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling.

Tecwyn, E.C., Mahbub, N., Kazi, N., & Buchsbaum, D. (2021). Can 1- and 2-year-old toddlers learn causal action sequences? Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Prystawski, B., Gelpi, R., Lucas, C.G., & Buchsbaum, D. (2021). Modelling Recognition in Human Puzzle Solving. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Espinosa, J., Tecwyn, E. C., & Buchsbaum, D. (2021). Searching high and low: Domestic dogs' understanding of solidity. Animal Cognition.

Espinosa, J., Dong, L., & Buchsbaum, D. (2021). Domestic dogs' gaze and behaviour in 2-alternative choice tasks. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Pelgrim, M., Espinosa, J., Tecwyn, E.C., Marton, S., Johnston, A., Buchsbaum, D. (2021) What’s the point? Domestic dogs’ sensitivity to the accuracy of human informants. Animal Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-021-01493-5

Gelpi, R., Prystawski, B., Lucas, C. G., & Buchsbaum, D. (2020). Incremental hypothesis revision in causal reasoning across development. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Tecwyn, E. C., Seed, A. M., & Buchsbaum, D. (2020). Sensitivity to Ostension is Not Sufficient for Pedagogical Reasoning by Toddlers. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Léon-Villagrá, P., Otsubo, K., Lucas, C. G., & Buchsbaum, D. (2020). Uncovering Category Representations with Linked MCMC with people. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Pham, T., & Buchsbaum, D. (2020). Children’s use of majority information is influenced by pragmatic inferences and task domain. Developmental Psychology, 56(2), 312–323.

Gelpi, R., Cunningham, W. A., & Buchsbaum, D. (2020). Belief as a non-epistemic adaptive benefit [Peer commentary on “Ratio nalization is rational”, by F. Cushman]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, E36, doi:10.1017/S0140525X19002206

Gualtieri, S., Buchsbaum D., & Denison S. (2019). Exploring information use in children’s decision making: Base-rate neglect and trust in testimony. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/xge0000726

Bridgers, S., Wang, Y., & Buchsbaum, D. (2019). Children's exploration as a window into their causal learning. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Felsche, E., Stevens, P., Völter, C., Buchsbaum, D., & Seed, A. (2019). Exploring the use of overhypotheses by children and capuchin monkeys. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Levine, D., Buchsbaum, D., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2018). Finding events in a continuous world: A developmental account. Developmental Psychobiology. doi:10.1002/dev.21804

Yuk, V., Urbain, C., Pang, E. W., Anagnostou, E., Buchsbaum, D., & Taylor, M. J. (2018). Do you know what I’m thinking? Temporal and spatial brain activity during a theory of mind task in children with autism. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 34, 139-147. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2018.08.001

Tecwyn, E. C., & Buchsbaum, D. (2018). What factors really influence domestic dogs’ (Canis familiaris) search for an item dropped down a diagonal tube? The tubes task revisited. Journal of Comparative Psychology. doi:10.1037/com0000145. Recipient of the Frank Beach Award for the Best Paper in the Journal of Comparative Psychology in 2019.

Tecwyn, E.C. & Buchsbaum, D. (2018) Hood's Gravity Rules. In Vonk, J. & Shackleford, T. (Eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer.

Herbst, E., Lucas, C., & Buchsbaum, D. (2017) Investigating the Explore/Exploit Trade-off in Adult Causal Inferences. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Otsubo, K., Whalen, A., & Buchsbaum, D. (2017). Investigating Sensitivity to Shared Information and Personal Experience in Children’s Use of Majority Information. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Pham, T., Hu, J. C., & Buchsbaum, D. (2017). Pragmatics Influence Children’s Use of Majority Information. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Whalen, A., Griffiths, T. L., & Buchsbaum, D. (2017). Sensitivity to Shared Information in Social Learning. Cognitive Science. doi:10.1111.cogs.12485.

Tecwyn, E. C., Denison, S., Messer, E. J. E., & Buchsbaum, D. (2017). Intuitive probabilistic inference in capuchin monkeys. Animal Cognition. doi:10.1007/s10071-016-1043-9.

Bridgers, S., Buchsbaum D., Seiver, E., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Children’s causal inferences from conflicting testimony and observations. Developmental Psychology, 54, 9-18.

Burdett, E. R. R., Lucas, AJ., Buchsbaum, D., McGuigan, N., Wood, LA., et al. (2016). Do Children Copy an Expert or a Majority? Examining Selective Learning in Instrumental and Normative Contexts. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0164698.

Hu, J. C., Whalen, A., Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2015). Can children balance the size of a majority with the quality of their information? In CogSci.

Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., Plunkett, D., Gopnik, A., Baldwin, D. (2015). Inferring Action Structure And Causal Relationships in Continuous Sequences of Human Action. Cognitive Psychology, 76, 30-77.

Gopnik, A., Seiver, E., & Buchsbaum, D. (2013). How causal learning helps us to understand other people, and how other people help us to learn about causes: Probabilistic models and the development of social cognition. (M. R. Banaji, S. A. Gelman, Ed.). Navigating the social world: What infants, children, and other species can teach us: Oxford University Press

Whalen, A., Buchsbaum, A., T. L. Griffiths. (2013). How do you know that? Sensitivity to statistical dependency in social learning. In Proceedings of the 35th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany: Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 35, No. 35).

Hu, J. C., Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2013). When does the majority rule? preschoolers trust in majority informants varies by domain. In Proceedings of the 35th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany: Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 35, No. 35).

Buchsbaum, D., Bridgers, S., Whalen A., Seiver E., Griffiths, T. L., & Gopnik, A. (2012). Do I know that you know what you know? Modeling testimony in causal inference. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 34, No. 34).

Buchsbaum, D., & Morse, D. M. (2012). The effect of experience and rearing environment on the behavior of crab spiderlings during their first few weeks of life. Behaviour, 149, 667-683.

Buchsbaum, D., Seiver, E., Bridgers, S., & Gopnik, A. (2012). Learning About Causes from People, and about People from Causes: Statistical inference and Social Causal Reasoning. (Xu, Fei, Tamar Kushnir, Ed.). Rational Constructivism, Waltham, MA: Academic Press

Buchsbaum, D., Bridgers, S., Weisberg, D. S., & Gopnik, A. (2012). The power of possibility: Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning, and pretend play. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367, 2202-2212.

Buchsbaum, D., Gopnik, A., Griffiths, T. L., & Shafto, P. (2011). Children’s Imitation of Causal Action Sequences is Influenced by Statistical and Pedagogical Evidence. Cognition, 120, 331-340., Number 3

Buchsbaum, D., Canini, K. R., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). Segmenting and Recognizing Human Action using Low-level Video Features. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 33, No. 33).

Buchsbaum, D., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Children’s Imitation of Action Sequences is Influenced by Statistical Evidence and Inferred Causal Structure. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 32, No. 32).

Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., Gopnik, A., & Baldwin, D. (2009). Learning from actions and their consequences: Inferring causal variables from continuous sequences of human action. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 103, p. 134). Cognitive Science Society Austin, TX.