Amy Perfors

Cross-situational learning in a Zipfian environment.

Andrew T Hendrickson, Amy Perfors

Journal article  |  2019  |  Cognition

Both adults and children have shown impressive cross-situational word learning in which they leverage the statistics of word usage..

Conformity to the descriptive norms of people with opposing political or social beliefs

Campbell Pryor, Amy Perfors, Piers DL Howe

Journal article  |  2019  |  PLOS ONE

The descriptive norm effect refers to findings that individuals will tend to prefer behaving certain ways when they know that othe..

Sample size, number of categories and sampling assumptions: Exploring some differences between categorization and generalization.

Andrew T Hendrickson, Amy Perfors, Danielle J Navarro, Keith Ransom

Journal article  |  2019  |  Cognitive Psychology

Categorization and generalization are fundamentally related inference problems. Yet leading computational models of categorization..

The "Small World of Words" English word association norms for over 12,000 cue words

Simon De Deyne, Danielle J Navarro, Amy Perfors, Marc Brysbaert, Gert Storms

Journal article  |  2019  |  Behavior Research Methods

Word associations have been used widely in psychology, but the validity of their application strongly depends on the number of cue..

Do Additional Features Help or Hurt Category Learning? The Curse of Dimensionality in Human Learners.

Wai Keen Vong, Andrew T Hendrickson, Danielle J Navarro, Amy Perfors

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Cognitive Science

The curse of dimensionality, which has been widely studied in statistics and machine learning, occurs when additional features cau..

Even arbitrary norms influence moral decision-making

Campbell Pryor, Amy Perfors, Piers DL Howe

Journal article  |  2019  |  Nature Human Behaviour

The Psychology of Cultural Dynamics: What Is It, What Do We Know, and What Is Yet to Be Known?

Yoshihisa Kashima, Paul G Bain, Amy Perfors

Book  |  2019  |  Annual Review of Psychology

The psychology of cultural dynamics is the psychological investigation of the formation, maintenance, and transformation of cultur..

When Extremists Win: Cultural Transmission Via Iterated Learning When Populations Are Heterogeneous.

Danielle J Navarro, Amy Perfors, Arthur Kary, Scott D Brown, Chris Donkin

Journal article  |  2018  |  Cognitive Science

How does the process of information transmission affect the cultural or linguistic products that emerge? This question is often st..

Reversing the endowment effect

Campbell Pryor, Amy Perfors, Piers DL Howe

Journal article  |  2018  |  Judgment and Decision Making

An argument for how (and why) to incentivise replication

Piers DL Howe, Amy Perfors

Journal article  |  2018  |  Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Not every credible interval is credible: Evaluating robustness in the presence of contamination in Bayesian data analysis.

Lauren A Kennedy, Daniel J Navarro, Amy Perfors, Nancy Briggs

Journal article  |  2017  |  Behavior Research Methods

As Bayesian methods become more popular among behavioral scientists, they will inevitably be applied in situations that violate th..

Bayesian models of cognition revisited: Setting optimality aside and letting data drive psychological theory.

Sean Tauber, Daniel J Navarro, Amy Perfors, Mark Steyvers

Journal article  |  2017  |  Psychological Review

Recent debates in the psychological literature have raised questions about the assumptions that underpin Bayesian models of cognit..

On simplicity and emergence.

Amy Perfors

Journal article  |  2017  |  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Mark Johnson's paper centres around a provocative and sensible point: the simplicity of a change in evolutionary terms does not ne..

Language learning, language use and the evolution of linguistic variation.

Kenny Smith, Amy Perfors, Olga Fehér, Anna Samara, Kate Swoboda, Elizabeth Wonnacott

Journal article  |  2017  |  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Linguistic universals arise from the interaction between the processes of language learning and language use. A test case for the ..

Leaping to Conclusions: Why Premise Relevance Affects Argument Strength.

Keith J Ransom, Amy Perfors, Daniel J Navarro

Journal article  |  2016  |  Cognitive Science

Everyday reasoning requires more evidence than raw data alone can provide. We explore the idea that people can go beyond this data..

Structure at Every Scale: A Semantic Network Account of the Similarities Between Unrelated Concepts

Simon De Deyne, Daniel J Navarro, Amy Perfors, Gert Storms

Journal article  |  2016  |  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Piaget, Probability, Causality, and Contradiction

A Perfors

Journal article  |  2016  |  Human Development

Adult Regularization of Inconsistent Input Depends on Pragmatic Factors

A Perfors

Journal article  |  2016  |  Language Learning and Development

The helpfulness of category labels in semi-supervised learning depends on category structure.

Wai Keen Vong, Daniel J Navarro, Amy Perfors

Journal article  |  2016  |  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

The study of semi-supervised category learning has generally focused on how additional unlabeled information with given labeled in..

Predicting human similarity judgments with distributional models: The value of word associations

S De Deyne, A Perfors, DJ Navarro

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  COLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016: Technical Papers

Sensitivity to hypothesis size during information search

AT Hendrickson, DJ Navarro, A Perfors

Journal article  |  2016  |  Decision

The structure of sequential effects.

Dinis Gökaydin, Daniel J Navarro, Anna Ma-Wyatt, Amy Perfors

Journal article  |  2016  |  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

There is a long history of research into sequential effects, extending more than one hundred years. The pattern of sequential effe..

How do people learn from negative evidence? Non-monotonic generalizations and sampling assumptions in inductive reasoning.

Wouter Voorspoels, Daniel J Navarro, Amy Perfors, Keith Ransom, Gert Storms

Journal article  |  2015  |  Cognitive Psychology

A robust finding in category-based induction tasks is for positive observations to raise the willingness to generalize to other ca..

Empiricism and Language Learnability

Nick Chater, Alexander Clark, Amy Perfors, John A Goldsmith

Book  |  2015

This work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability.

Evidence for widespread thematic structure in the mental lexicon

S De Deyne, S Verheyen, A Perfors, D Navarro

Conference Proceedings  |  2015

Representations, approximations, and limitations within a computational framework for cognitive science. Comment on "Toward a computational framework for cognitive biology: Unifying approaches from cognitive neuroscience and comparative cognition" by W. Tecumseh Fitch.

Amy Perfors

Journal article  |  2014  |  Physics of Life Reviews

Language evolution can be shaped by the structure of the world.

Amy Perfors, Daniel J Navarro

Journal article  |  2014  |  Cognitive Science

Human languages vary in many ways but also show striking cross-linguistic universals. Why do these universals exist? Recent theore..

People ignore token frequency when deciding how far to generalize

A Perfors, K Ransom, D Navarro

Conference Proceedings  |  2014

Adaptive information source selection during hypothesis testing

A Hendrickson, D Navarro, A Perfors

Conference Proceedings  |  2014

People are sensitive to hypothesis sparsity during category discrimination

S Langsford, A Hendrickson, A Perfors, D Navarro

Conference Proceedings  |  2014

Bayesian inference in word learning

A Perfors

Reference Work  |  2014

The relevance of labels in semi-supervised learning depends on category structure

WK Vong, A Perfors, D Navarro

Conference Proceedings  |  2014

Induction in language learning

A Perfors

Reference Work  |  2014

Learning time-varying categories.

Daniel J Navarro, Amy Perfors, Wai Keen Vong

Journal article  |  2013  |  Memory & Cognition

Many kinds of objects and events in our world have a strongly time-dependent quality. However, most theories about concepts and ca..

The role of sampling assumptions in generalization with multiple categories

WK Vong, A Hendrickson, A Perfors, D Navarro

Conference Proceedings  |  2013

When do memory limitations lead to regularization? An experimental and computational investigation

A Perfors

Journal article  |  2012  |  Journal of Memory and Language

What Bayesian modelling can tell us about statistical learning: What it requires and why it works

A Perfors, DJ Navarro

Book Chapter  |  2012

Epistemic trust: modeling children's reasoning about others' knowledge and intent.

Patrick Shafto, Baxter Eaves, Daniel J Navarro, Amy Perfors

Journal article  |  2012  |  Developmental Science

A core assumption of many theories of development is that children can learn indirectly from other people. However, indirect exper..

Induction, overhypotheses, and the shape bias: Some arguments and evidence for rational constructivism

F Xu, K Dewar, A Perfors

Book Chapter  |  2012

Levels of explanation and the workings of science

A Perfors

Journal article  |  2012  |  Australian Journal of Psychology

Bayesian models of cognition: What's built in after all?

A Perfors

Journal article  |  2012  |  Philosophy Compass

Strong structure in weak semantic similarity: A graph based account

S De Deyne, D Navarro, A Perfors, G Storms

Conference Proceedings  |  2012

Probability matching vs. over-regularization in language: Participant behavior depends on their interpretation of the task

A Perfors

Conference Proceedings  |  2012

Musicians are better at learning non-native sound contrasts even in non-tonal languages

A Perfors, J Ong

Conference Proceedings  |  2012

Anticipating changes: Adaptation and extrapolation in category learning

D Navarro, A Perfors

Conference Proceedings  |  2012

A tutorial introduction to Bayesian models of cognitive development.

Amy Perfors, Joshua B Tenenbaum, Thomas L Griffiths, Fei Xu

Journal article  |  2011  |  Cognition

We present an introduction to Bayesian inference as it is used in probabilistic models of cognitive development. Our goal is to pr..

Enlightenment grows from fundamentals

DJ Navarro, AF Perfors

Journal article  |  2011  |  Behavioral and Brain Sciences

AbstractJones & Love (J&L) contend that the Bayesian approach should integrate process constraints with abstract computational ana..

The learnability of abstract syntactic principles.

Amy Perfors, Joshua B Tenenbaum, Terry Regier

Journal article  |  2011  |  Cognition

Children acquiring language infer the correct form of syntactic constructions for which they appear to have little or no direct ev..

Simplicity and fit in grammatical theory

A Perfors

Book Chapter  |  2011

Hypothesis generation, sparse categories, and the positive test strategy.

Daniel J Navarro, Amy F Perfors

Journal article  |  2011  |  Psychological Review

We consider the situation in which a learner must induce the rule that explains an observed set of data but the hypothesis space o..

Memory limitations alone do not lead to over-regularization: An experimental and computational investigation

A Perfors

Conference Proceedings  |  2011

To catch a liar: The effects of truthful and deceptive testimony on inferential learning

R Montague, D Navarro, A Perfors, P Shafto

Conference Proceedings  |  2011

Bayesian modeling of sources of constraint in language acquisition

A Perfors, E Wonnacott

Book Chapter  |  2011

Humans use different statistics for sequence analysis depending on the task

D Gokaydin, A Ma-Wyatt, D Navarro, A Perfors

Conference Proceedings  |  2011

Learning individual words and learning about words simultaneously

S Yuan, A Perfors, J Tenenbaum

Conference Proceedings  |  2011

Language evolution is shaped by the structure of the world: An iterated learning analysis

A Perfors

Conference Proceedings  |  2011

Why are some word orders more common than others? A Uniform Information Density account

L Maurits, A Perfors, D Navarro

Conference Proceedings  |  2010  |  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23: 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2010, NIPS 2010

Probabilistic models of cognition: exploring representations and inductive biases

Thomas L Griffiths, Nick Chater, Charles Kemp, Amy Perfors, Joshua B Tenenbaum

Journal article  |  2010  |  Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Variability, negative evidence, and the acquisition of verb argument constructions.

Amy Perfors, Joshua B Tenenbaum, Elizabeth Wonnacott

Journal article  |  2010  |  Journal of Child Language

We present a hierarchical Bayesian framework for modeling the acquisition of verb argument constructions. It embodies a domain-gen..

The learnability of abstract syntactic principles

A Perfors, JB Tenenbaum, T Regier

Journal article  |  2010  |  Developmental Cell

Similarity, feature discovery, and the size principle.

Daniel J Navarro, Amy F Perfors

Journal article  |  2010  |  Acta Psychologica

In this paper we consider the "size principle" for featural similarity, which states that rare features should be weighted more he..

Phonetic training makes word learning easier

A Perfors

Conference Proceedings  |  2010

How recursive is language? A Bayesian exploration

A Perfors, E Gibson, J Tenenbaum, T Regier

Book Chapter  |  2010

Adult language learners under cognitive load do not over-regularize like children

A Perfors, N Burns

Conference Proceedings  |  2010

Social context effects on the impact of category labels

R Stephens, A Perfors, D Navarro

Conference Proceedings  |  2010

How does the presence of a label affect attention to other features?

A Perfors, D Navarro

Conference Proceedings  |  2010

Indirect evidence and the poverty of the stimulus: The case of anaphoric one

S Foraker, T Regier, N Khetarpal, A Perfors, J Tenenbaum

Journal article  |  2009  |  Cognitive Science

Learning time-varying categories

D Navarro, A Perfors

Conference Proceedings  |  2009

Confirmation bias is rational when hypotheses are sparse

A Perfors, D Navarro

Conference Proceedings  |  2009

Learning to learn categories

A Perfors, J Tenenbaum

Conference Proceedings  |  2009

When to walk away: The effect of variability on keeping options viable

A Ejova, D Navarro, A Perfors

Conference Proceedings  |  2009

Joint acquisition of word order and word reference

L Maurits, A Perfors, D Navarro

Conference Proceedings  |  2009

Learning overhypotheses with hierarchical Bayesian models.

Charles Kemp, Amy Perfors, Joshua B Tenenbaum

Journal article  |  2007  |  Developmental Science

Inductive learning is impossible without overhypotheses, or constraints on the hypotheses considered by the learner. Some of these..

Indirect evidence and the poverty of the stimulus: The case of anaphoric one

S Foraker, T Regier, N Khetarpal, A Perfors, J Tenenbaum

Conference Proceedings  |  2007

Poverty of the stimulus? A rational approach

A Perfors, J Tenenbaum, T Regier

Conference Proceedings  |  2006

Learning overhypotheses

C Kemp, A Perfors, J Tenenbaum

Conference Proceedings  |  2006

Picking up speed in understanding: Speech processing efficiency and vocabulary growth across the 2nd year.

Anne Fernald, Amy Perfors, Virginia A Marchman

Journal article  |  2006  |  Developmental Psychology

To explore how online speech processing efficiency relates to vocabulary growth in the 2nd year, the authors longitudinally observ..

Modeling the acquisition of domain structure and feature understanding

A Perfors, C Kemp, J Tenenbaum

Conference Proceedings  |  2005

The puzzle of ambiguity

T Wasow, A Perfors, D Beaver

Book Chapter  |  2005

Learning domain structures

C Kemp, A Perfors, J Tenenbaum

Conference Proceedings  |  2004

Simulated evolution of language: A review of the field

A Perfors

Journal article  |  2002  |  Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation

This is an overview of recent computational work done in the simulated evolution of language. It is prefaced by an overview of the..