General News

New model of visual analogy highlighted in Nature Communications

Tests of analogical reasoning in GPT-3 and GPT-4 now published in Nature Human Behaviour, and summarized in the UCLA Newsroom

Cover art for article by LA-based artist Yaron Dotan

New paper exploring the basis for relational luring in recognition memory

Article on AI and poetry (based on The Spider’s Thread)

Tributes to Roger Shepard (including one by Keith) on the website of the Cognitive Science Society

Some New Publications

Lee, J., Wong, E.F., Cheng, P.W. (2023). Promoting Climate Actions: A Cognitive-Constraints ApproachCognitive Psychology, 143, 10156.

Bye, J.K., Chuang, P.J., Cheng, P.W. (2023). How do humans want causes to combine their effects? the role of causal invariance for generalizable causal knowledgeCognition, 23, 105303.

Cheng, P.W., Sandhofer, C.M., Liljeholm, M. (2022). Analytic causal knowledge for constructing useable empirical causal knowledge: Two experiments on preschoolersCognitive Science, 46.

Ichien, N. & Cheng, P.W. (2022). Revisiting Hume in the 21st century: The possibility of generalizable causal beliefs given inherently unobservable causal relations.  In A. Wiegmann & P. Willemsen (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Causation.  London, UK: Bloomsbury Press.

See Keith’s Publications for papers presented at the 2022 conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Holyoak, K. J., Ichien, N., & Lu, H. (2022). From semantic vectors to analogical mappingCurrent Directions in Psychological Science.https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221098054

Lu, H., Ichien, N., & Holyoak, K. J. (2022). Probabilistic analogical mapping with semantic relation networksPsychological Review.https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000358

Priniski, J. H., & Holyoak, K. J. (2022). A darkening spring: How preexisting distrust shaped COVID-19 skepticism.  PLoS ONE 17(1): e0263191. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263191

Holyoak, K. J. (in press). Poet and psychologist: A conversation. Metaphor and Symbol.

Stamenković, D., Milenković, K., Ichien, N., & Holyoak, K. J. (in press). An individual-differences approach to poetic metaphor: Impact of aptness and familiarity. Metaphor and Symbol.

Ichien, N., Lu, H., & Holyoak, K. J. (2022). Predicting patterns of similarity among abstract semantic relations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition48(1), 108–121. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001010

Park, J., McGillivray, S., Bye, J.K. & Cheng, P.W. (2022).  Causal invariance as an implicit aspiration: Analytic knowledge of invariance functionsCognitive Psychology, 132.