4 papers
The end of radical concept nativism
Joshua S. Rule, Steven T. Piantadosi
Though humans seem to be remarkable learners, arguments in cognitive science and philosophy of mind have long maintained that learning something fundamentally new is impossible. Sp…
Modeling infant object perception as program induction
Jan-Philipp Fränken, Christopher G. Lucas, Neil R. Bramley +1
Infants expect physical objects to be rigid and persist through space and time and in spite of occlusion. Developmentists frequently attribute these expectations to a "core system"…
People infer recursive visual concepts from just a few examples
Brenden M. Lake, Steven T. Piantadosi
Machine learning has made major advances in categorizing objects in images, yet the best algorithms miss important aspects of how people learn and think about categories. People ca…
The Natural Stories Corpus
Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson, Hal Tily +4
It is now a common practice to compare models of human language processing by predicting participant reactions (such as reading times) to corpora consisting of rich naturalistic li…