Publications
*: Equal contribution. †: Joint senior authors.
Preprint
Prospective compression in human abstraction learningL. H. Cano, I. Zareski*, L. E. Amouri*, P. Zhao*, M. Mascini, E. Sansone, Y. Pu, B. Zhao†, M. Kryven†
2026
Rational teachers should 'lie' to bounded studentsH. Ham, D. Arumugam, C. G. Correa, B. Zhao, T. L. Griffiths, N. Velez
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Online library learning in human visual puzzle solving
P. Zhao, E. Sansone, M. Kryven†, B. Zhao†
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society An evolutionary model of recombination in social learning
E. Whitaker, T. Quillien, B. Zhao
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society A rational model of growth mindset theory
Y. M. Zhu, B. Zhao
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
2025
Teaching recombinable motifs through simple examplesH. Ham, B. Zhao, T. L. Griffiths, N. Velez
Cognitive Science Discovering hidden laws in innovation by recombination
B. Zhao, E. Mieczkowski, D. Arumugam, N. Velez, T. L. Griffiths
Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Learning a doubly-exponential number of concepts from few examples
I. Sucholutsky, B. Zhao, H. S. Hwang, A. Chen, O. Russakovsky, T. L. Griffiths
Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Bootstrapping in geometric puzzle solving
X. He, B. Zhao, N. R. Bramley
Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Are two-year-olds intrinsically motivated to explore their own competence?
B. Fascendini, B. Zhao, N. Velez
Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society State sensitivity in an additive discovery game
Y. Hong, C. Wang, B. Zhao
Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
2024
A model of conceptual bootstrapping in human cognitionB. Zhao, C. G. Lucas, N. R. Bramley
Nature Human Behaviour A rational model of innovation by recombination
B. Zhao, N. Velez, T. L. Griffiths
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Using compositionality to learn many categories from few examples
I. Sucholutsky, B. Zhao, T. L. Griffiths
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Higher uncertainty leads to less exploration in a combinatorial discovery game
B. Zhao, N. Velez, T. L. Griffiths
NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty Modeling goal selection with program synthesis
J. B. Byers, B. Zhao, Y. Niv
NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Intrinsically-Motivated and Open-Ended Learning (IMOL) The art of knowing when to stop: analysis of optimal stopping in people and machines
F. E. Zhang, B. Zhao
NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Mathematical Reasoning and AI (MathAI)
2023
Local search and the evolution of world models
N. R. Bramley, B. Zhao, T. Quillien, T. L. Griffiths
Topics in Cognitive Science
T. Gong, B. Zhao, R. D. McIntosh, C. G. Lucass
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Understanding spatial neglect: A Bayesian perspective
T. Gong, B. Zhao, R. D. McIntosh, C. G. Lucas
Proceedings of the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting Bootstrapping compositional generalization with cache-and-reuse
B. Zhao, C. G. Lucas, N. R. Bramley
Proceedings of the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting
2022
How do people generalize causal relations over objects? A non-parametric Bayesian account
B. Zhao, C. G. Lucas, N. R. Bramley
Computational Brain & Behavior
B. Zhao, N. R. Bramley, C. G. Lucas
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Dissecting causal asymmetries in inductive generalization
Z. Xia*, B. Zhao*, T. Quillien, C. G. Lucas
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Categorizing perceived causal events
N. Marchant, B. Zhao, N. R. Bramley, D. Morales, S. E. Chaigneau
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
2021
Symbolic and sub-symbolic systems in people and machinesS. Valentin, B. Zhao, C. Jiang, N. R. Bramley, C. G. Lucas
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Building object-based causal programs for human-like generalization
B. Zhao, C. G. Lucas, N. R. Bramley
NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Causal Inference & Machine Learning: Why Now?
2020
Order Effects in One-shot Causal GeneralizationB. Zhao, N. R. Bramley
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Before 2020
Predicting cognitive difficulty of the deductive mastermind game with dynamic epistemic logic modelsB. Zhao*, I. van de Pol*, M. E. Raijmakers, J. Szymanik
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society People making deontological judgments in the Trapdoor dilemma are perceived to be more prosocial in economic games than they actually are
V. Capraro, J. Sippel, B. Zhao, L. Hornischer, M. Savary, Z. Terzopoulou, P. Faucher, S. F. Griffioen
PLoS One