Ben Prystawski

According to our database, Ben Prystawski authored at least 21 papers between 2020 and 2025.

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2025

Lossy communication constrains iterated learning.

Ben Prystawski, Dilip Arumugam, Noah D. Goodman

CoRR, November, 2025

Context informs pragmatic interpretation in vision-language models.

Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Ben Prystawski, Veronica Boyce, Michael C. Frank

CoRR, November, 2025

Language and Experience: A Computational Model of Social Learning in Complex Tasks.

Cédric Colas, Tracey Mills, Ben Prystawski, Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman, Jacob Andreas, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

CoRR, September, 2025

Scaling up the think-aloud method.

Daniel Wurgaft, Ben Prystawski, Kanishk Gandhi, Cedegao E. Zhang, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Thinking fast, slow, and everywhere in between in humans and language models.

Ben Prystawski, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Language and Experience: A Computational Model of Social Learning in Complex Novel Tasks.

Cédric Colas, Tracey Mills, Ben Prystawski, Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman, Jacob Andreas, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Idiosyncratic but not opaque: Linguistic conventions formed in reference games are interpretable by naïve humans and vision-language models.

Veronica Boyce, Ben Prystawski, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Michael C. Frank

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

2024

Naturalistic Transmission of Causal Knowledge between Machines and Humans.

Cédric Colas, Tracey Mills, Ben Prystawski, Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman, Jacob Andreas, Josh Tenenbaum

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

2023

Why think step-by-step? Reasoning emerges from the locality of experience.

Ben Prystawski, Noah D. Goodman

CoRR, 2023

Why think step by step? Reasoning emerges from the locality of experience.

Ben Prystawski, Michael Li, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Toward a normative theory of (self-)management by goal-setting.

Nishad Singhi, Florian Mohnert, Ben Prystawski, Falk Lieder

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Psychologically-informed chain-of-thought prompts for metaphor understanding in large language models.

Ben Prystawski, Paul H. Thibodeau, Christopher Potts, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Cultural reinforcement learning: a framework for modeling cumulative culture on a limited channel.

Ben Prystawski, Dilip Arumugam, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2022

Resource-rational Models of Human Goal Pursuit.

Ben Prystawski, Florian Mohnert, Mateo Tosic, Falk Lieder

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2022

Psychologically-informed chain-of-thought prompts for metaphor understanding in large language models.

Ben Prystawski, Paul H. Thibodeau, Noah D. Goodman

CoRR, 2022

The Emergence of Gender Associations in Child Language Development.

Ben Prystawski, Erin Grant, Aida Nematzadeh, Spike W. S. Lee, Suzanne Stevenson, Yang Xu

Cogn. Sci., 2022

2021

Algorithms for Adaptive Experiments that Trade-off Statistical Analysis with Reward: Combining Uniform Random Assignment and Reward Maximization.

Jacob Nogas, Tong Li, Fernando J. Yanez, Arghavan Modiri, Nina Deliu, Ben Prystawski, Sofia S. Villar, Anna N. Rafferty, Joseph Jay Williams

CoRR, 2021

Modelling Recognition in Human Puzzle Solving.

Ben Prystawski, Rebekah Gelpi, Chris Lucas, Daphna Buchsbaum

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

2020

Improving Short and Long-term Learning in an Online Homework System.

Ben Prystawski, Jacob Nogas, Andrew Petersen, Joseph Jay Williams

Proceedings of 4th Educational Data Mining in Computer Science Education (CSEDM) Workshop co-located with the 13th Educational Data Mining Conference (EDM 2020), 2020

Tracing the Emergence of Gendered Language in Childhood.

Ben Prystawski, Erin Grant, Aida Nematzadeh, Spike W. S. Lee, Suzanne Stevenson, Yang Xu

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Incremental Hypothesis Revision in Causal Reasoning Across Development.

Rebekah Gelpi, Ben Prystawski, Christopher Lucas, Daphna Buchsbaum

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020