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Career

· Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University2013–
· Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University2013–2013
· MA in Statistics, University of California, Berkeley2007–2011
· PhD in Psychology, University of California, Berkeley2007–2012
· Sc.B. Applied Mathematics-Computer Science with Honors, Brown University2003–2007
· Assistant Professor of Psychology, Wisconsin, Madison

Publications (88)

Random walks on semantic networks can resemble optimal foraging.
Psychology Review · 2015
161
cited
Coordinate to cooperate or compete: Abstract goals and joint intentions in social interaction
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2016
132
cited
Showing versus doing: Teaching by demonstration
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2016
117
cited
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Probabilistic Inference: Evidence from the Domain of Color
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2016
92
cited
A Unified Local and Global Model for Discourse Coherence
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2007
89
cited
Multilevel Coarse-to-Fine PCFG Parsing
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2006
74
cited
Analyzing the history of Cognition using Topic Models
Cognition · 2015
70
cited
Estimating Semantic Networks of Groups and Individuals from Fluency Data
Computational Brain & Behavior · 2018
63
cited
Visual Concept Learning: Combining Machine Vision and Bayesian Generalization on Concept Hierarchies
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2013
63
cited
Networks of Social and Moral Norms in Human and Robot Agents
2017
62
cited
Human memory search as a random walk in a semantic network
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2012
60
cited
People Teach With Rewards and Punishments as Communication, Not Reinforcements
Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2018
52
cited
A nonparametric Bayesian framework for constructing flexible feature representations.
Psychology Review · 2013
51
cited
Seeking Confirmation Is Rational for Deterministic Hypotheses
Cognitive Sciences · 2011
51
cited
Examining Search Processes in Low and High Creative Individuals with Random Walks
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2016
50
cited
SNAFU: The Semantic Network and Fluency Utility
Behavior Research Methods · 2020
45
cited
Teaching with Rewards and Punishments: Reinforcement or Communication?
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2015
40
cited
Communication in action: Planning and interpreting communicative demonstrations.
Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2021
34
cited
Structure and Flexibility in Bayesian Models of Cognition
2015
32
cited
Analyzing human feature learning as nonparametric Bayesian inference
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2008
31
cited
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