Publications

Preprint

Teaching and learning generalizable abstractions
H. Huang, B. Zhao, T. L. Griffiths, N. Velez

2024

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)

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

A model of conceptual bootstrapping in human cognition
B. Zhao, C. G. Lucas, N. R. Bramley
Nature Human Behaviour

2023

Local search and the evolution of world models
N. R. Bramley, B. Zhao, T. Quillien, C. G. Lucas
Topics in Cognitive Science

Understanding spatial neglect: A Bayesian perspective
T. Gong, B. Zhao, R. D. McIntosh, T. L. Griffiths
Proceedings of the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting

A rational model of spatial neglect
T. Gong, B. Zhao, R. D. McIntosh, T. L. Griffiths
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Bootstrapping compositional generalization with cache-and-reuse
B. Zhao, C. G. Lucas, N. R. Bramley
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

2022

Powering up causal generalization: A model of human conceptual bootstrapping with adaptor grammars
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

How do people generalize causal relations over objects? A non-parametric Bayesian account
B. Zhao, C. G. Lucas, N. R. Bramley
Computational Brain & Behavior

2021

Building object-based causal programs for human-like generalization
B. Zhao, C. G. Lucas, N. R. Bramley
Causal Inference & Machine Learning Workshop
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Symbolic and sub-symbolic systems in people and machines
S. Valentin, B. Zhao, C. Jiang, N. R. Bramley, C. G. Lucas
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

2020

Order Effects in One-shot Causal Generalization
B. 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 models
B. 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