Alison GOPNIK

Alison GOPNIK

University of California, Berkeley

H-index: 92

North America-United States

About Alison GOPNIK

Alison GOPNIK, With an exceptional h-index of 92 and a recent h-index of 56 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of California, Berkeley, specializes in the field of Cognitive Development, Probabilistic Models, Learning, Causal Inference.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)?(Oct, 10.1177/17456916231201401, 2023)

Preschoolers and adults metonymically extend proper names to owned objects

Preschoolers search longer when there is more information to be gained

Structural explanations lead young children and adults to rectify resource inequalities

The development of human causal learning and reasoning

Empowerment as Causal Learning, Causal Learning as Empowerment: A bridge between Bayesian causal hypothesis testing and reinforcement learning.

Flexible spatial memory in children: Different reference frames on different axes

Imitation versus Innovation: What children can do that large language and language-and-vision models cannot (yet)?

Alison GOPNIK Information

University

Position

Professor of Psychology

Citations(all)

43490

Citations(since 2020)

11676

Cited By

35388

hIndex(all)

92

hIndex(since 2020)

56

i10Index(all)

207

i10Index(since 2020)

144

Email

University Profile Page

University of California, Berkeley

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Alison GOPNIK Skills & Research Interests

Cognitive Development

Probabilistic Models

Learning

Causal Inference

Top articles of Alison GOPNIK

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)?(Oct, 10.1177/17456916231201401, 2023)

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Eunice Yiu

Eliza Kosoy

Alison Gopnik

2023/10/26

Preschoolers and adults metonymically extend proper names to owned objects

Child Development

Rebecca Zhu

Alison Gopnik

2024/1

Preschoolers search longer when there is more information to be gained

Developmental Science

Azzurra Ruggeri

Oana Stanciu

Madeline Pelz

Alison Gopnik

Eric Schulz

2024/1

Structural explanations lead young children and adults to rectify resource inequalities

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Ny Vasil

Mahesh Srinivasan

Monica E Ellwood-Lowe

Sierra Delaney

Alison Gopnik

...

2024/6/1

The development of human causal learning and reasoning

Mariel K Goddu

Alison Gopnik

2024/4/26

Empowerment as Causal Learning, Causal Learning as Empowerment: A bridge between Bayesian causal hypothesis testing and reinforcement learning.

Alison Gopnik

2024/4/4

Flexible spatial memory in children: Different reference frames on different axes

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Benjamin Pitt

Sahra Aalaei

Alison Gopnik

2023

Imitation versus Innovation: What children can do that large language and language-and-vision models cannot (yet)?

arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.07666

Eunice Yiu

Eliza Kosoy

Alison Gopnik

2023/5/8

What can AI Learn from Human Exploration? Intrinsically-Motivated Humans and Agents in Open-World Exploration

Yuqing Du

Eliza Kosoy

Alyssa Dayan

Maria Rufova

Pieter Abbeel

...

2023/11/9

Discovering new functions in everyday tools by children, adults and LLM’s

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Eunice Yiu

Alison Gopnik

2023

From Child's Play to AI: Insights into Automated Causal Curriculum Learning

Annya Dahmani

Eunice Yiu

Tabitha Edith Lee

Nan Rosemary Ke

Oliver Kroemer

...

2023/10/13

Early adversity and the development of explore–exploit tradeoffs

Willem E Frankenhuis

Alison Gopnik

2023/5/2

Ask me why, don't tell me why: Asking children for explanations facilitates relational thinking

Developmental science

Erik Brockbank

Tania Lombrozo

Alison Gopnik

Caren M Walker

2023/1

Preschoolers and adults learn from novel metaphors

Psychological Science

Rebecca Zhu

Alison Gopnik

2023/6

Caregiving in philosophy, biology & political economy

Dædalus

Alison Gopnik

2023/2/28

Egalitarian Pluralism

Daedalus

Steven M Teles

2023/2/28

Toddlers' understanding of intentions, desires, and emotions: Explorations of the dark ages

Andrew N Meltzoff

Alison Gopnik

Betty M Repacholi

2023/5/31

Grădinarul și tâmplarul: Noi tendințe în psihologia dezvoltării copilului

Alison Gopnik

2023/12/21

Using games to understand the mind

Kelsey Rebecca Allen

Franziska Brändle

Matthew Botvinick

Judith Fan

Samuel J Gershman

...

2023/2/1

Comparing machines and children: Using developmental psychology experiments to assess the strengths and weaknesses of LaMDA responses

arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11243

Eliza Kosoy

Emily Rose Reagan

Leslie Lai

Alison Gopnik

Danielle Krettek Cobb

2023/5/18

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Co-Authors

H-index: 137
Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

H-index: 110
Thomas L. Griffiths

Thomas L. Griffiths

Princeton University

H-index: 76
Noah D. Goodman

Noah D. Goodman

Stanford University

H-index: 71
Michael W. Morris

Michael W. Morris

Columbia University in the City of New York

H-index: 54
James Woodward

James Woodward

University of Pittsburgh

H-index: 40
David Sobel

David Sobel

Brown University

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