Todd M Gureckis
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Coenen A, Ruggeri A, Bramley N, Gureckis T
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
. 2019 May;
45(11):1923-1941.
PMID: 31094563
What is the best way of discovering the underlying structure of a causal system composed of multiple variables? One prominent idea is that learners should manipulate each candidate variable in...
12.
Ruggeri A, Markant D, Gureckis T, Bretzke M, Xu F
Cognition
. 2019 Feb;
186:82-94.
PMID: 30769196
This paper investigates whether active control of study leads to enhanced learning in 5- to 11-year-old children. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants played a simple memory game with the...
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Rich A, Gureckis T
J Exp Psychol Gen
. 2018 Sep;
147(11):1553-1570.
PMID: 30247058
Learning usually improves the accuracy of beliefs through the accumulation of experience. But are there limits to learning that prevent us from accurately understanding our world? In this article we...
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Bramley N, Gerstenberg T, Tenenbaum J, Gureckis T
Cogn Psychol
. 2018 Jun;
105:9-38.
PMID: 29885534
Many aspects of our physical environment are hidden. For example, it is hard to estimate how heavy an object is from visual observation alone. In this paper we examine how...
15.
Coenen A, Nelson J, Gureckis T
Psychon Bull Rev
. 2018 Jun;
26(5):1548-1587.
PMID: 29869025
The ability to act on the world with the goal of gaining information is core to human adaptability and intelligence. Perhaps the most successful and influential account of such abilities...
16.
Juni M, Gureckis T, Maloney L
Decision (Wash D C )
. 2016 Jul;
3(3):147-168.
PMID: 27429991
The decision to gather information should take into account both the value of information and its accrual costs in time, energy and money. Here we explore how people balance the...
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Gureckis T, Martin J, McDonnell J, Rich A, Markant D, Coenen A, et al.
Behav Res Methods
. 2015 Oct;
48(3):829-42.
PMID: 26428910
Online data collection has begun to revolutionize the behavioral sciences. However, conducting carefully controlled behavioral experiments online introduces a number of new of technical and scientific challenges. The project described...
18.
Gureckis T, Markant D
Perspect Psychol Sci
. 2015 Jul;
7(5):464-81.
PMID: 26168504
A widely advocated idea in education is that people learn better when the flow of experience is under their control (i.e., learning is self-directed). However, the reasons why volitional control...
19.
Coenen A, Rehder B, Gureckis T
Cogn Psychol
. 2015 May;
79:102-33.
PMID: 25935867
How do people choose interventions to learn about causal systems? Here, we considered two possibilities. First, we test an information sampling model, information gain, which values interventions that can discriminate...
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Markant D, Settles B, Gureckis T
Cogn Sci
. 2015 Mar;
40(1):100-20.
PMID: 25789918
Collecting (or "sampling") information that one expects to be useful is a powerful way to facilitate learning. However, relatively little is known about how people decide which information is worth...