T. Gureckis

Most-cited papers

Enhanced Memory as a Common Effect of Active Learning
D. Markant, A. Ruggeri, T. Gureckis, Fei Xu
2016143 citations Open access
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Behavioral, physiological, and neural signatures of surprise during naturalistic sports viewing
J. Antony, Thomas H. Hartshorne, K. Pomeroy, T. Gureckis +3 more
2020bioRxiv111 citations Open access
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Asking the right questions about the psychology of human inquiry: Nine open challenges
A. Coenen, Jonathan D. Nelson, T. Gureckis
2018Psychonomic Bulletin & Review83 citations Open access
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Lessons for artificial intelligence from the study of natural stupidity
Alexander S. Rich, T. Gureckis
2019Nature Machine Intelligence82 citations
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Memory enhancements from active control of learning emerge across development.
A. Ruggeri, D. Markant, T. Gureckis, M. Bretzke +1 more
2019Cognition74 citations Open access
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Intuitive experimentation in the physical world.
N. Bramley, Tobias Gerstenberg, J. Tenenbaum, T. Gureckis
2018Cognitive Psychology73 citations Open access
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Do People Ask Good Questions?
Anselm Rothe, B. Lake, T. Gureckis
201859 citations
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The Limits of Learning: Exploration, Generalization, and the Development of Learning Traps
Alexander S. Rich, T. Gureckis
2018Journal of experimental psychology. General53 citations Open access
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Question Asking as Program Generation
Anselm Rothe, B. Lake, T. Gureckis
2017Neural Information Processing Systems51 citations
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Fast and flexible: Human program induction in abstract reasoning tasks
A. Johnson, Wai Keen Vong, B. Lake, T. Gureckis
2021Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society47 citations
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Limits on simulation approaches in intuitive physics.
E. Ludwin-Peery, N. Bramley, Ernest Davis, T. Gureckis
2021Cognitive Psychology44 citations Open access
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Broken Physics: A Conjunction-Fallacy Effect in Intuitive Physical Reasoning
E. Ludwin-Peery, N. Bramley, E. Davis, T. Gureckis
2020Psychology Science43 citations Open access
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H-ARC: A Robust Estimate of Human Performance on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus Benchmark
Solim LeGris, Wai Keen Vong, B. Lake, T. Gureckis
2024arXiv.org38 citations
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Goals as reward-producing programs
Guy Davidson, Graham Todd, Julian Togelius, T. Gureckis +1 more
2024Nature Machine Intelligence31 citations Open access
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Information sampling behavior with explicit sampling costs
Mordechai Juni, T. Gureckis, L. Maloney
2016Decision31 citations Open access
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Desirable difficulties during the development of active inquiry skills.
George Kachergis, Marjorie Rhodes, T. Gureckis
2017Cognition29 citations
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Grounding Compositional Hypothesis Generation in Specific Instances
N. Bramley, Anselm Rothe, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Fei Xu +1 more
2018Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society28 citations
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Causal Information-Seeking Strategies Change Across Childhood and Adolescence
Kate Nussenbaum, Alexandra O Cohen, Zachary J. Davis, David J. Halpern +2 more
2019Cognitive Sciences22 citations Open access
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Exploratory Choice Reflects the Future Value of Information
Alexander S. Rich, T. Gureckis
2018Decision19 citations Open access
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Using precise word timing information improves decoding accuracy in a multiband-accelerated multimodal reading experiment
An T. Vu, Jeffrey S. Phillips, Kendrick Norris Kay, Matthew E. Phillips +8 more
2016Cognitive Neuropsychology17 citations Open access
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Asking and evaluating natural language questions
Anselm Rothe, B. Lake, T. Gureckis
2016Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society16 citations
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Identifying causal subsequent memory effects
David J. Halpern, Shannon Tubridy, L. Davachi, T. Gureckis
2021bioRxiv15 citations Open access
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How does the primate brain combine generative and discriminative computations in vision?
Benjamin Peters, J. DiCarlo, T. Gureckis, R. Haefner +9 more
2024arXiv.org14 citations
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Children’s failure to control variables may reflect adaptive decision-making
N. Bramley, Angela Jones, T. Gureckis, A. Ruggeri
2022Psychonomic Bulletin & Review14 citations Open access
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Knowledge Tracing Using the Brain
David J. Halpern, Shannon Tubridy, Hong-Yu Wang, Camille Gasser +3 more
2018Educational Data Mining13 citations
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Do different prompting methods yield a common task representation in language models?
Guy Davidson, T. Gureckis, B. Lake, Adina Williams
2025Neural Information Processing Systems12 citations
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psiTurk: An open platform for science on Amazon Mechanical Turk
David Eargle, T. Gureckis, Alexander S. Rich, John V. McDonnell +1 more
202112 citations
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A Comprehensive Behavioral Dataset for the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus
Solim LeGris, Wai Keen Vong, B. Lake, T. Gureckis
2025Scientific Data11 citations Open access
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Testing one or multiple: How beliefs about sparsity affect causal experimentation.
A. Coenen, A. Ruggeri, N. Bramley, T. Gureckis
2019Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition10 citations Open access
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Creativity, Compositionality, and Common Sense in Human Goal Generation
Guy Davidson, T. Gureckis, B. Lake
2022Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society9 citations
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The “Naturalistic Free Recall” dataset: four stories, hundreds of participants, and high-fidelity transcriptions
Omri Raccah, Phoebe Chen, T. Gureckis, David Poeppel +1 more
2024Scientific Data8 citations Open access
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Title: Behavioral, physiological, and neural signatures of surprise during naturalistic sports
J. Antony, Thomas H. Hartshorne, K. Pomeroy, T. Gureckis +4 more
20208 citations
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Expectations about future learning influence moment-to-moment feelings of suspense
Zhiwei Li, N. Bramley, T. Gureckis
2020Cognition & Emotion8 citations Open access
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Modeling Second-Language Learning from a Psychological Perspective
Alexander S. Rich, Pamela J. Osborn Popp, David J. Halpern, Anselm Rothe +1 more
2018BEA@NAACL-HLT8 citations Open access
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Ask or Tell: Balancing questions and instructions in intuitive teaching
Pamela J. Osborn Popp, T. Gureckis
2020Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society7 citations
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Limits on the Use of Simulation in Physical Reasoning
E. Ludwin-Peery, N. Bramley, E. Davis, T. Gureckis
2019Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society7 citations Open access
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Beliefs about sparsity affect causal experimentation
A. Coenen, N. Bramley, A. Ruggeri, T. Gureckis
2017Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society7 citations
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Where Questions Come From: Reusing Old Questions in New Situations
Emily G. Liquin, T. Gureckis
2022Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society5 citations
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Active physical inference via reinforcement learning
Shuaiji Li, Yu Sun, Sijia Liu, Tian-Yu Wang +2 more
2019Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society5 citations Open access
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A Causal Model Approach to Dynamic Control
Zachary J. Davis, N. Bramley, B. Rehder, T. Gureckis
2018Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society5 citations
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Can losses help attenuate learning traps?
Amy X. Li, T. Gureckis, B. Hayes
2021Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society4 citations
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Who says models can only do what you tell them? Unsupervised category learning data, fits, and predictions
T. Gureckis, Bradley C. Love
2019Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society4 citations Open access
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Asking goal-oriented questions and learning from answers
Anselm Rothe, B. Lake, T. Gureckis
2019Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society4 citations
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The distorting effect of deciding to stop sampling
A. Coenen, T. Gureckis
2016Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society4 citations
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CUNY Academic
M. Crump, John V. McDonnell, T. Gureckis
20164 citations
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Can cognitive discovery be incentivized with money?
Pamela J. Osborn Popp, Ben R. Newell, Daniel M. Bartels, T. Gureckis
2025Journal of experimental psychology. General3 citations Open access
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Name that state: How language affects human reinforcement learning
Angela Radulescu, Wai Keen Vong, T. Gureckis
2022Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society3 citations
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The critical moment is coming: Modeling the dynamics of suspense
Zhiwei Li, N. Bramley, T. Gureckis
2019Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society3 citations
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Active control of study leads to improved recognition memory in children
A. Ruggeri, D. Markant, T. Gureckis, Fei Xu
20163 citations
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Emergent Processes in Group
Robert L. Goldstone, Michael E. Roberts, T. Gureckis
20163 citations
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