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<div id="chu_cogsci_2025">
  
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                Chu, J.,
              
            
                Zheng, K.,
              
            
                and Fan, J. E.
              
            
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        (2025).
      
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    <span class="title">What makes people think a puzzle is fun to solve?.</span>
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      <em>Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
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<div id="chen_llm_2025">
  
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                Chen, A.,
              
            
                Kim, S.,
              
            
                Dharmasiri, A.,
              
            
                Russakovsky, O.,
              
            
                and Fan, J. E.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2025).
      
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    <span class="title">Portraying Large Language Models as Machines, Tools, or Companions Affects What Mental Capacities People Attribute to Them.</span>
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      <em>Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
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<div id="zhu_vocab_2025">
  
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                Zhu, R.,
              
            
                Nduku, T.,
              
            
                Arieda, J. O.,
              
            
                Verma, A.,
              
            
                Fan, J. E.,
              
            
                and Frank, M. C.
              
            
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    <span class="year">
      
        (2025).
      
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    <span class="title">Investigating children’s performance on object- and picture-based vocabulary assessments in global contexts: Evidence from Kisumu, Kenya.</span>
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      <em>Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
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<div id="brockbank_cogsci_2025">
  
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                Brockbank, E.,
              
            
                Gerstenberg, T.,
              
            
                Fan, J. E.,
              
            
                and Hawkins, R.
              
            
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    <span class="year">
      
        (2025).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">How do we get to know someone? Diagnostic questions for inferring personal traits.</span>
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      <em>Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
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<div id="verma_cogsci_2025">
  
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                Verma, A.,
              
            
                and Fan, J. E.
              
            
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    <span class="year">
      
        (2025).
      
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    <span class="title">Measuring and predicting variation in the difficulty of questions about data visualizations.</span>
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      <em>Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
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<div id="zheng_cogsci_2025">
  
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                Zheng, K.,
              
            
                Brockbank, E.,
              
            
                Schwartz, S. T.,
              
            
                Bryan, C.,
              
            
                Dweck, C.,
              
            
                and Fan, J. E.
              
            
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    <span class="year">
      
        (2025).
      
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    <span class="title">Linking student psychological orientation, engagement, and learning in college-level introductory data science.</span>
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      <em>Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
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<div id="brockbank_crpi_2025">
  
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                Brockbank, E.,
              
            
                Verma, A.,
              
            
                Lloyd, H.,
              
            
                Huey, H.,
              
            
                Padilla, L.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
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    <span class="year">
      
        (2025).
      
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    <span class="title">Evaluating convergence between two data visualization literacy assessments.</span>
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      <em>Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.</em>
    
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<div id="vinker2025sketchagentlanguagedrivensequentialsketch">
  
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                Vinker, Y.,
              
            
                Shaham, T.,
              
            
                Zheng, K.,
              
            
                Zhao, A.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Torralba, A.
              
            
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    <span class="year">
      
        (2025).
      
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    <span class="title">SketchAgent: Language-Driven Sequential Sketch Generation.</span>
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      <em>Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).</em>
    
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<div id="chen_chilbw_2025">
  
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                Chen, A.,
              
            
                Kim, S.,
              
            
                Dharmasiri, A.,
              
            
                Russakovsky, O.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2025).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Portraying large language models as machines, tools, or companions affects what mental capacities humans attribute to them.</span>
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      <em>Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Late Breaking Work.</em>
    
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<div id="brockbank_cogsci_2024">
  
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                Brockbank*, E.,
              
            
                Yang*, J.,
              
            
                Govil, M.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Gerstenberg, T.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2024).
      
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    <span class="title">Without his cookies, he’s just a monster: a counterfactual simulation model of social explanation.</span>
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      <em>Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
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<div id="wang_cogsci_2024">
  
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                Wang, H.,
              
            
                Jedoui, K.,
              
            
                Venkatesh, R.,
              
            
                Binder, F.,
              
            
                Tenenbaum, J.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Yamins, D.,
              
            
                and Smith, K.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2024).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Probabilistic simulation supports generalizable intuitive physics.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
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<div id="verma_cogsci_2024">
  
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                Verma, A.,
              
            
                Mukherjee, K.,
              
            
                Potts, C.,
              
            
                Kreiss, E.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2024).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Evaluating human and machine understanding of data visualizations.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
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<div id="mccarthy_cogsci_2024">
  
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                McCarthy, W.,
              
            
                Anderson, S.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
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    <span class="year">
      
        (2024).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">How does assembling an object affect memory for it?.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
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<div id="holt_cognition_2024">
  
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                Holt, S.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Barner, D.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2024).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Creating ad hoc graphical representations of number.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Cognition.</em>
    
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<div id="bourouis2023open">
  
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                Bourouis, A.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Gryaditskaya, Y.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2024).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Open vocabulary semantic scene sketch understanding.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).</em>
    
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<div id="venkatesh2024counterfactual">
  
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                Venkatesh, R.,
              
            
                Chen, H.,
              
            
                Feigelis, K.,
              
            
                Jedoui, K.,
              
            
                Kotar, K.,
              
            
                Binder, F.,
              
            
                Lee, W.,
              
            
                Liu, S.,
              
            
                Smith, K.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Yamins, D.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2024).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Counterfactual World Modeling for Physical Dynamics Understanding.</span>
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      <em>European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).</em>
    
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<div id="mccarthy_creativitycognition_2024">
  
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                McCarthy, W.,
              
            
                Matejka, J.,
              
            
                Willis, K.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Pu, Y.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2024).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Communicating design intent using drawing and text.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition.</em>
    
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<div id="huey_creativitycognition_2024">
  
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                Huey, H.,
              
            
                Leake, M.,
              
            
                Aneja, D.,
              
            
                Fisher, M.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2024).
      
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    <span class="title">How do video content creation goals impact which concepts people prioritize when generating B-roll imagery?.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition.</em>
    
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<div id="allen2024games">
  
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                Allen, K.,
              
            
                Brändle, F.,
              
            
                Botvinick, M.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Gershman, S.,
              
            
                Griffiths, T.,
              
            
                Hartshorne, J.,
              
            
                Hauser, T.,
              
            
                Ho, M.,
              
            
                Leeuw, J.,
              
            
                Ma, W. J.,
              
            
                Murayama, K.,
              
            
                Nelson, J.,
              
            
                Opheusden, B.,
              
            
                Pouncy, T.,
              
            
                Rafner, J.,
              
            
                Rahwan, I.,
              
            
                Rutledge, R.,
              
            
                Sherson, J.,
              
            
                Simsek, O.,
              
            
                Spiers, H.,
              
            
                Summerfield, C.,
              
            
                Thalmann, M.,
              
            
                Velez, N.,
              
            
                Watrous, A.,
              
            
                Tenenbaum, J.,
              
            
                and Schulz, E.
              
            
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    <span class="year">
      
        (2024).
      
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    <span class="title">Using games to understand the mind.</span>
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      <em>Nature Human Behaviour.</em>
    
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<div id="long_natcomms_2024">
  
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                Long, B.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Huey, H.,
              
            
                Chai, Z.,
              
            
                and Frank, M.
              
            
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    <span class="year">
      
        (2024).
      
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    <span class="title">Parallel developmental changes in children’s production and recognition of line drawings of visual concepts.</span>
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      <em>Nature Communications.</em>
    
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<div id="mukherjee_neurips_2023">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Mukherjee, K.,
              
            
                Huey, H.,
              
            
                Lu, X.,
              
            
                Vinker, Y.,
              
            
                Aguina-Kang, R.,
              
            
                Shamir, A.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2023).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">SEVA: Leveraging sketches to evaluate alignment between human and machine visual abstraction.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Datasets and Benchmarks Track).</em>
    
    </span>
  

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                McCarthy, W.,
              
            
                Kirsh, D.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2023).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Consistency and variation in reasoning about physical assembly.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Cognitive Science.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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<div id="physion2_neurips_2023">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Tung, H.-Y.,
              
            
                Ding, M.,
              
            
                Chen, Z.,
              
            
                Bear, D.,
              
            
                Gan, C.,
              
            
                Tenenbaum, J.,
              
            
                Yamins, D.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Smith, K.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2023).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Physion++: Evaluating Physical Scene Understanding that Requires Online Inference of Different Physical Properties.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Datasets and Benchmarks Track).</em>
    
    </span>
  

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<div id="fan_naturereviewspsychology_2023">
  
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                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Bainbridge, W.,
              
            
                Chamberlain, R.,
              
            
                and Wammes, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2023).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Drawing as a versatile cognitive tool.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Nature Reviews Psychology.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/fan_nrp_2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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<div id="long_devsci_2023">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Long, B.,
              
            
                Wang, Y.,
              
            
                Christie, S.,
              
            
                Frank, M.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2023).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Developmental changes in drawing production under different memory demands in a U.S. and Chinese sample.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Developmental Psychology.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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<div id="hawkins_natcomms_2023">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Hawkins, R.,
              
            
                Sano, M.,
              
            
                Goodman, N.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2023).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Visual resemblance and interaction history jointly constrain pictorial meaning.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Nature Communications.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/hawkins_natcomms_2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
    [<a href="https://github.com/hawkrobe/graphical_conventions" target="_blank">code</a>]
  
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<div id="lu_icml_2023">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Lu, X.,
              
            
                Wang, X.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2023).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Learning dense correspondences between photos and sketches.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>International Conference on Machine Learning.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/lu_icml_2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
    [<a href="https://github.com/cogtoolslab/photo-sketch-correspondence" target="_blank">code</a>]
  
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<div id="huey_cognition_2023">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Huey, H.,
              
            
                Lu, X.,
              
            
                Walker, C.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2023).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Explanatory drawings prioritize functional properties at the expense of visual fidelity.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Cognition.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/huey_cognition_2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
    [<a href="https://github.com/cogtoolslab/causaldraw_public2021" target="_blank">code</a>]
  
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<div id="martinez_cogsci_2023">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Martinez, J.,
              
            
                Binder, F.,
              
            
                Wang, H.,
              
            
                Haber, N.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Yamins, D.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2023).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Measuring and modeling physical intrinsic motivation.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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<div id="hueyoey_cogsci_2023">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Huey*, H.,
              
            
                Oey*, L.,
              
            
                Lloyd, H.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2023).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">How do communicative goals guide which data visualizations people think are effective?.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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<div id="mukherjee_cogsci_2023">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Mukherjee, K.,
              
            
                Huey, H.,
              
            
                Lu, X.,
              
            
                Vinker, Y.,
              
            
                Aguina-Kang, R.,
              
            
                Shamir, A.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2023).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Evaluating machine comprehension of sketch meaning at different levels of abstraction.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/mukherjee_cogsci_2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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<div id="binder_cogsci_2023">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Binder, F.,
              
            
                Mattar, M.,
              
            
                Kirsh, D.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2023).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Humans choose visual subgoals to reduce cognitive cost.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/binder_cogsci_2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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<div id="gweon_rsta_2023">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Gweon, H.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Kim, B.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2023).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Socially intelligent machines that learn from humans and help humans learn.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/gweon_rsta_2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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<div id="wangyang_cogsci_2022">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Wang, H.,
              
            
                Yang, J.,
              
            
                Tamari, R.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2022).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Communicating understanding of physical dynamics in natural language.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/wangyang_cogsci_2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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<div id="hueylong_cogsci_2022">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Huey*, H.,
              
            
                Long*, B.,
              
            
                Yang, J.,
              
            
                George, K.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2022).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Developmental changes in the semantic part structure of drawn objects.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/hueylong_cogsci_2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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<div id="WMG_cogsci_2022">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Wong*, C.,
              
            
                McCarthy*, W.,
              
            
                Grand*, G.,
              
            
                Friedman, Y.,
              
            
                Tenenbaum, J.,
              
            
                Andreas, J.,
              
            
                Hawkins, R.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2022).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Identifying concept libraries from language about object structure.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/WMG_cogsci_2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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<div id="wang_cogsci_2022">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Wang, H.,
              
            
                Allen, K.,
              
            
                Vul, E.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2022).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Generalizing physical prediction by composing forces and objects.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/wang_cogsci_2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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<div id="brockbank_cogsci_2022">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Brockbank*, E.,
              
            
                Wang*, H.,
              
            
                Yang, J.,
              
            
                Mirchandani, S.,
              
            
                Erdem Bıyık, E.,
              
            
                Sadigh, D.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2022).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">How do people incorporate advice from artificial agents when making physical judgments?.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/brockbankwang_cogsci_2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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    <span class="author">
      
        
                Bear*, D.,
              
            
                Wang*, E.,
              
            
                Mrowca*, D.,
              
            
                Binder*, F.,
              
            
                Tung, H.-Y.,
              
            
                RT, P,
              
            
                Holdaway, C.,
              
            
                Tao, S.,
              
            
                Smith, K.,
              
            
                Sun, F.-Y.,
              
            
                Li, F.-F.,
              
            
                Kanwisher, N.,
              
            
                Tenenbaum, J.,
              
            
                Yamins**, D.,
              
            
                and Fan**, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2021).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Physion: Evaluating physical prediction from vision in humans and machines.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Datasets and Benchmarks Track).</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/BWMB_neurips_2021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
    [<a href="https://github.com/cogtoolslab/physics-benchmarking-neurips2021" target="_blank">code</a>]
  
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<div id="holdaway_cogsci_2021">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Holdaway*, C.,
              
            
                Bear*, D.,
              
            
                Radwan, S.,
              
            
                Frank, M.,
              
            
                Yamins, D.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2021).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Measuring and predicting variation in the interestingness of physical structures.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/holdaway_cogsci_2021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
    [<a href="https://github.com/cogtoolslab/curiotower" target="_blank">code</a>]
  
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<div id="binder_cogsci_2021">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Binder, F.,
              
            
                Mattar, M.,
              
            
                Kirsh, D.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2021).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Visual scoping operations for physical assembly.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/binder_cogsci_2021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
    [<a href="https://github.com/cogtoolslab/tools_block_construction" target="_blank">code</a>]
  
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<div id="yang_cogsci_2021">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Yang, J.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2021).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Visual communication of object concepts at different levels of abstraction.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/yang_cogsci_2021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
    [<a href="https://github.com/cogtoolslab/photodraw_cogsci2021" target="_blank">code</a>]
  
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<div id="kachergis_cogsci_2021">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Kachergis, G.,
              
            
                Radwan, S.,
              
            
                Long, B.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Lingelbach, M.,
              
            
                Bear, D.,
              
            
                Yamins, D.,
              
            
                and Frank, M.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2021).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Predicting children’s and adults’ preferences in physical interactions via physics simulation.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/kachergis_cogsci_2021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
    [<a href="https://github.com/langcog/curiobaby_drop" target="_blank">code</a>]
  
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<div id="wang_cogsci_2021b">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Wang, H.,
              
            
                Vul, E.,
              
            
                Polikarpova, N.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2021).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Theory acquisition as constraint-based program synthesis.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/wang_cogsci_2021b.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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<div id="wang_cogsci_2021a">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Wang, H.,
              
            
                Polikarpova, N.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2021).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Learning part-based abstractions for visual object concepts.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/wang_cogsci_2021a.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
    [<a href="https://github.com/cogtoolslab/sketch_program_synthesis" target="_blank">code</a>]
  
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<div id="holt_cogsci_2021">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Holt, S.,
              
            
                Barner, D.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2021).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Improvised numerals rely on 1-to-1 correspondence.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/holt_cogsci_2021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
    [<a href="https://github.com/cogtoolslab/iterated_number" target="_blank">code</a>]
  
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<div id="huey_cogsci_2021">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Huey, H.,
              
            
                Walker, C.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2021).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">How do the semantic properties of visual explanations guide causal inference?.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
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                McCarthy*, W.,
              
            
                Hawkins*, R.,
              
            
                Wang, H.,
              
            
                Holdaway, C.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2021).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
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                McCarthy, W.,
              
            
                Mattar, M.,
              
            
                Kirsh, D.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
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        (2021).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Connecting perceptual and procedural abstractions in physical construction.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
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<div id="mccarthy_orlr_2020">
  
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                McCarthy, W.,
              
            
                Holdaway, C.,
              
            
                Hawkins, R.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2020).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Emergence of compositional abstractions in human collaborative assembly.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>NeurIPS Workshop on Object Representations for Learning and Reasoning.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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<div id="mccarthy_cogsci_2020">
  
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                McCarthy, W.,
              
            
                Kirsh, D.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2020).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Learning to build physical structures better over time.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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<div id="xu2020schema">
  
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                Xu, X.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Dow, S.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2020).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Schema and Metadata Guide the Collective Generation of Relevant and Diverse Work.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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    <span class="author">
      
        
                McCarthy, W.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2020).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Rapid policy updating in human physical construction.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>ICML Workshop on Object-Oriented Learning: Perception, Representation, and Reasoning.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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    <span class="author">
      
        
                Wang, H.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2020).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Library learning for structured object concepts.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>ICML Workshop on Object-Oriented Learning: Perception, Representation, and Reasoning.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Wammes, J.,
              
            
                Gunn, J.,
              
            
                Yamins, D.,
              
            
                Norman, K.,
              
            
                and Turk-Browne, N.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2020).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Relating visual production and recognition of objects in human visual cortex.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Journal of Neuroscience.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/fan_jneuro_2019.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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<div id="fan_context_cbb">
  
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                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Hawkins, R.,
              
            
                Wu, M.,
              
            
                and Goodman, N.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2019).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Pragmatic inference and visual abstraction enable contextual flexibility in visual communication.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Computational Brain and Behavior.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/fan_cbb_2019.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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                Achlioptas, P.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Hawkins, R.,
              
            
                Guibas, L.,
              
            
                and Goodman, N.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2019).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">ShapeGlot: Learning Language for Shape Differentiation.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>International Conference on Computer Vision.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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<div id="hawkinssano_cogsci_2019">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Hawkins, R.,
              
            
                Sano, M.,
              
            
                Goodman, N.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2019).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Disentangling contributions of visual information and interaction history in the formation of graphical conventions.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
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<div id="mukherjee_cogsci_2019">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Mukherjee, K.,
              
            
                Hawkins, R.,
              
            
                and Fan, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2019).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Conveying semantic part information in drawings.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/mukherjee_cogsci_2019.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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    <span class="author">
      
        
                Long, B.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Chai, R.,
              
            
                and Frank, M.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2019).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Developmental changes in the ability to draw distinctive features of object categories.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/long_cogsci_2019.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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<div id="fan_collabdraw_2019">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Dinculescu, M.,
              
            
                and Ha, D.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2019).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Collabdraw: an environment for collaborative sketching with an artificial agent.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
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<div id="cullen_npjsol_2018">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Cullen, S.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Brugge, E.,
              
            
                and Elga, A.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2018).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Improving analytical reasoning and argument understanding: A quasi-experimental field study of argument visualization.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>npj: Science of Learning.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
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<div id="long_cogsci_2018">
  
    <span class="author">
      
        
                Long, B.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Frank, M.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2018).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Drawings as a window into developmental changes in object representations.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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<div id="fan_cs_2018">
  
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                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Yamins, D.,
              
            
                and Turk-Browne, N.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2018).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Common object representations for visual production and recognition.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Cognitive Science.</em>
    
    </span>
  

  <span class="links">
  
  
    [<a href="https://cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/fan_cs_2018.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pdf</a>]
  
  
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<div id="fan_jephpp_2016">
  
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                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Turk-Browne, N.,
              
            
                and Taylor, J.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2016).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Error-driven learning in statistical summary perception.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Hutchinson, J.B.,
              
            
                and Turk-Browne, N.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2016).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">When past is present: Substitutions of long-term memory for sensory evidence in perceptual judgments.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Journal of Vision.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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<div id="fan_jeplmc_2016">
  
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                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Turk-Browne, N.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2016).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Incidental biasing of attention from visual long-term memory.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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<div id="fan_cogsci_2015">
  
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                Fan, J.,
              
            
                Yamins, D.,
              
            
                and Turk-Browne, N.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2015).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Common object representations for visual recognition and production.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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<div id="fan_tips_2015">
  
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            Fan, J.
          
        
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    <span class="year">
      
        (2015).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Drawing to learn: How producing graphical representations enhances scientific thinking.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Translational Issues in Psychological Science.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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                Fan, J.,
              
            
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    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2014).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">The crowd is self-aware.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Behavioral and Brain Sciences.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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                Fan, J.,
              
            
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    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2013).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Internal attention to features in visual short-term memory guides object learning.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Cognition.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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<div id="fan_gastronomica_2013">
  
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            Fan, J.
          
        
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2013).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Can ideas about food inspire real social change? The case of Peruvian gastronomy.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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                Strange, B.,
              
            
                Kroes, M.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Dolan, R.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2010).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Emotion causes targeted forgetting of established memories.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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                Sharot, T.,
              
            
                Shiner, T.,
              
            
                Brown, A.,
              
            
                Fan, J.,
              
            
                and Dolan, R.
              
            
    </span>
    <span class="year">
      
        (2009).
      
    </span>
    <span class="title">Dopamine enhances expectation of pleasure in humans.</span>
    <span class="periodical">
    
      <em>Current Biology.</em>
    
    </span>
  

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