Bill Thompson

According to our database, Bill Thompson authored at least 31 papers between 2013 and 2026.

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2026

Representing expertise accelerates learning from pedagogical interaction data.

Dhara Yu, Karthikeya Ramesh Kaushik, Bill D. Thompson

CoRR, April, 2026

2025

Using LLMs to advance the cognitive science of collectives.

Ilia Sucholutsky, Katherine M. Collins, Nori Jacoby, Bill D. Thompson, Robert D. Hawkins

Nat. Comput. Sci., September, 2025

Adaptive use of vagueness to coordinate joint action.

Dhara Yu, Bill Thompson

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

How infants' understanding of goal-directed actions differs from a large language model.

Alyson Wong, Bill Thompson, Fei Xu

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

Selective social influence on aesthetic evaluations via natural language testimony.

Yoko Urano, Bill Thompson

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

What is addiction? Substance-specific biases in human beliefs and LLMs.

Maria Martin Lopez, Keanan Joyner, Bill Thompson

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

Words with more diverse semantic networks are more readily extended to novel meanings.

Qiawen Liu, Gary Lupyan, Mahesh Srinivasan, Bill Thompson

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

Children's division of cognitive labor: Evidence from Kenya and China.

Colin Jacobs, Dhara Yu, Zhen Zhang, Henriette Zeidler, Bill Thompson, Jan Engelmann

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

Learning and teaching are uncorrelated in an algorithm transmission task.

Qi Guo, Bill Thompson

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

2024

Latent Variable Sequence Identification for Cognitive Models with Neural Bayes Estimation.

Ti-Fen Pan, Jing-Jing Li, Bill Thompson, Anne Collins

CoRR, 2024

People balance joint reward, fairness and complexity to develop social norms in a two-player game.

Dhara Yu, Bill Thompson

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

Children spontaneously discover efficient sorting algorithms in a seriation task.

Huiwen Alex Yang, Bill Thompson, Celeste Kidd

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

Natural Language Semantics Encode Key Dimensions of Psychopathology.

Maria Martin Lopez, Keanan Joyner, Bill Thompson

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

Modelling metric violations in (geometric) conceptual spaces.

Karthikeya Ramesh Kaushik, Bill D. Thompson

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

2023

How do Humans Overcome Individual Computational Limitations by Working Together?

Natalia Vélez, Brian R. Christian, Mathew D. Hardy, Bill D. Thompson, Thomas L. Griffiths

Cogn. Sci., January, 2023

Hidden Differences in Phenomenal Experience.

Gary Lupyan, Ryutaro Uchiyama, Bill Thompson, Daniel Casasanto

Cogn. Sci., January, 2023

Large language models meet cognitive science: LLMs as tools, models, and participants.

Mathew D. Hardy, Ilia Sucholutsky, Bill Thompson, Tom Griffiths

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

2022

Overcoming Individual Limitations Through Distributed Computation: Rational Information Accumulation in Multigenerational Populations.

Mathew D. Hardy, Peaks M. Krafft, Bill Thompson, Thomas L. Griffiths

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2022

Bias amplification in experimental social networks is reduced by resampling.

Mathew D. Hardy, Bill D. Thompson, P. M. Krafft, Thomas L. Griffiths

CoRR, 2022

2020

Downloading Culture.zip: Social learning by program induction.

Max Kleiman-Weiner, Felix Sosa, Bill Thompson, Sebastiaan van Opheusden, Tom Griffiths, Samuel Gershman, Fiery Cushman

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

Population-level amplification of perceptual bias.

Mathew D. Hardy, Bill Thompson, Peter M. Krafft, Tom Griffiths

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

2019

Interpreting Silent Gesture: Cognitive Biases and Rational Inference in Emerging Language Systems.

Marieke Schouwstra, Henriëtte de Swart, Bill Thompson

Cogn. Sci., 2019

Inductive Biases Constrain Cumulative Cultural Evolution.

Bill Thompson, Tom Griffiths

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018

Introducing Parselmouth: A Python interface to Praat.

Yannick Jadoul, Bill Thompson, Bart de Boer

J. Phonetics, 2018

Why Do Durations in Musical Rhythms Conform to Small Integer Ratios?

Andrea Ravignani, Bill Thompson, Massimo Lumaca, Manon Grube

Frontiers Comput. Neurosci., 2018

Quantifying Semantic Similarity Across Languages.

Bill Thompson, Sean Roberts, Gary Lupyan

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Automatic Estimation of Lexical Concreteness in 77 Languages.

Bill Thompson, Gary Lupyan

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Predictors of L2 word learning accuracy: A big data investigation.

Elise Hopman, Bill Thompson, Joseph L. Austerweil, Gary Lupyan

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Using Universal Dependencies in cross-linguistic complexity research.

Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Çagri Çöltekin, Katharina Ehret, Kilu von Prince, Daniel Ross, Bill Thompson, Chunxiao Yan, Vera Demberg, Gary Lupyan, Taraka Rama, Christian Bentz

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies, 2018

2017

Computational Foundations of Cultural Evolution: Modeling the Emergence of Systems from Higher-order Probabilistic Inference.

Bill Thompson

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2013

Regularization behavior in a non-linguistic domain.

Vanessa Ferdinand, Bill Thompson, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013