Abstract visual reasoning with tangram shapes

A Ji, N Kojima, N Rush, A Suhr, WK Vong… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We introduce KiloGram, a resource for studying abstract visual reasoning in humans and
machines. Drawing on the history of tangram puzzles as stimuli in cognitive science, we …

How verb tense shapes persuasion

G Packard, J Berger, R Boghrati - Journal of Consumer …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
When sharing information and opinions about products, services, and experiences,
communicators often use either past or present tense (eg,“That restaurant was great” or …

From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention.

RD Hawkins, M Franke, MC Frank… - Psychological …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Languages are powerful solutions to coordination problems: They provide stable, shared
expectations about how the words we say correspond to the beliefs and intentions in our …

[HTML][HTML] The CABB dataset: A multimodal corpus of communicative interactions for behavioural and neural analyses

L Eijk, M Rasenberg, F Arnese, M Blokpoel… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a dataset of behavioural and fMRI observations acquired in the context of
humans involved in multimodal referential communication. The dataset contains audio/video …

Visual resemblance and interaction history jointly constrain pictorial meaning

RD Hawkins, M Sano, ND Goodman, JE Fan - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
How do drawings—ranging from detailed illustrations to schematic diagrams—reliably
convey meaning? Do viewers understand drawings based on how strongly they resemble …

Quantifying the interplay of conversational devices in building mutual understanding.

C Dideriksen, MH Christiansen, K Tylén… - Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Humans readily engage in idle chat and heated discussions and negotiate tough joint
decisions without ever having to think twice about how to keep the conversation grounded in …

The division of labor in communication: Speakers help listeners account for asymmetries in visual perspective

RD Hawkins, H Gweon, ND Goodman - Cognitive science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent debates over adults' theory of mind use have been fueled by surprising failures of
perspective‐taking in communication, suggesting that perspective‐taking may be relatively …

Identifying concept libraries from language about object structure

C Wong, WP McCarthy, G Grand, Y Friedman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Our understanding of the visual world goes beyond naming objects, encompassing our
ability to parse objects into meaningful parts, attributes, and relations. In this work, we …

Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions

WP McCarthy, RD Hawkins, H Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Many real-world tasks require agents to coordinate their behavior to achieve shared goals.
Successful collaboration requires not only adopting the same communicative conventions …

Interaction structure constrains the emergence of conventions in group communication

V Boyce, RD Hawkins, ND Goodman… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Real-world communication frequently requires language producers to address more than
one comprehender at once, yet most psycholinguistic research focuses on one-on-one …