Professor (D.Phil, Oxford University)
Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Science
Principal Investigator: Cognitive Development lab
Areas: Cognitive, Developmental
Specialties: cognition and language development, children's theories of mind, psychology and philosophy

Research Biography
Resume and Curriculum Vitae
Publications

The following papers are available for download in PDF format:

A. Gopnik & T. Nazzi (2003). Words, kinds and causal powers: A theory theory perspective on early naming and categorization. In D. Rakison, & L. Oakes (Eds.) Early categorization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

A. Gopnik (2003). The theory theory as an alternative to the innateness hypothesis. In L. Antony and N. Hornstein (eds.) Chomsky and his critics. Blackwells, Oxford.

T. Nazzi & A. Gopnik (2003). Sorting and acting with objects in early childhood: an exploration of the use of causal cues Cognitive Development, 18, 219-237.

A.Gopnik, C. Glymour, D. Sobel, L. Schulz, T. Kushnir, & D. Danks (2004). A theory of causal learning in children: Causal maps and Bayes nets. Psychological Review, 111, 1, 1-31.

T. Kushnir, A. Gopnik, L Schulz, & D. Danks. (in press). Inferring hidden causes. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

D. Sobel, J. Tenenbaum & A. Gopnik (in press) Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers. Cognitive Science

L. Schulz & A. Gopnik (2004). Causal learning across domains. Developmental Psychology, 40, 2, 162-176.

Gopnik & C. Glymour (in press). A brand-new ball game: Bayes net and neural net learning mechanisms in children. In M. Johnson & Y. Munakata (eds). Attention and Performance Symposium XXI, Learning mechanisms. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

A.Gopnik & L. Schulz (2004). Mechanisms of theory-formation in young children. Trends in Cognitive Science, 8. 8.

T. Kushnir & A. Gopnik (in press). Young children infer causal strength from probabilities and interventions. Psychological Science



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Phone: 510-642-2752
Email: gopnik@socrates.berkeley.edu