Caren M. Walker

According to our database, Caren M. Walker authored at least 35 papers between 2011 and 2024.

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2024

Calculated Comparisons: Manufacturing Societal Causal Judgments by Implying Different Counterfactual Outcomes.

Jamie Amemiya, Gail D. Heyman, Caren M. Walker

Cogn. Sci., February, 2024

2021

Children's Use of Causal Structure When Making Similarity Judgments.

Alexandra Rett, Jamie Amemiya, Micah Goldwater, Caren M. Walker

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

Knowing the Shape of the Solution: Causal Structure Constrains Evaluation of Possible Causes.

Elizabeth Lapidow, Junyi Chu, Caren M. Walker

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

Preschoolers' Spontaneous Gesture Production Predicts Analogical Transfer.

Minju Kim, Caren M. Walker

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

How do the semantic properties of visual explanations guide causal inference?

Holly Huey, Caren M. Walker, Judith E. Fan

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

How People Make Causal Judgments about Unprecedented Societal Events.

Jamie Amemiya, Gail D. Heyman, Caren M. Walker

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

2020

Knowing when to quit: Children consider access to solutions when deciding whether to persist.

Alexandra Rett, Caren M. Walker

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

Exploration Decisions Precede and Improve Explicit Uncertainty Judgments in Preschoolers.

Elizabeth Lapidow, Isabella Killeen, Caren M. Walker

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

What else could happen? Two-, three-, and four-year-olds use variability information to infer novel causal outcomes.

Mariel Goddu, Caren M. Walker

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

Certain to be surprised: A preference for novel causal outcomes develops in early childhood.

Mariel Goddu, Caren M. Walker

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

Explanation Supports Hypothesis Generation in Learning.

Erik Brockbank, Caren M. Walker

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

Stereotypes Decrease Children's Tendency to Acknowledge Constraints on Choice.

Jamie Amemiya, Elizabeth Mortenson, Sohee Ahn, Caren M. Walker, Gail D. Heyman

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

2019

Children's causal inferences about past vs. future events.

Katharine Tillman, Caren M. Walker

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

The Design of the Learning Environment Shapes Preschoolers' Causal Inference.

Alexandra Rett, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Caren M. Walker

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

"I Never Even Considered That!": Investigating explanations for adults' failures to learn conjunctive causal rules.

Alexandra Rett, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Koeun Choi, Caren M. Walker

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

Thinking counterfactually supports children's ability to conduct a controlled test of a hypothesis.

Angela Nyhout, Alana Iannuzziello, Caren M. Walker, Patricia Ganea

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

Does the intuitive scientist conduct informative experiments?: Children's early ability to select and learn from their own interventions.

Elizabeth Lapidow, Caren M. Walker

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

Learning to Recognize Uncertainty: Effects of Disconfirming Evidence on Confidence Scale Use in Preschoolers.

Isabella Killeen, Caren M. Walker

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

When Graph Comprehension Is An Insight Problem.

Amy Rae Fox, James D. Hollan, Caren M. Walker

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

The Dark Side of Satisficing: Setting the Temperature of Creative Thinking.

Tricia J. Ngoon, Caren M. Walker, Scott R. Klemmer

Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2019

2018

Toddlers and Adults Simultaneously Track Multiple Hypotheses in a Causal Learning Task.

Mariel Goddu, Caren M. Walker

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

Considering alternatives facilitates anomaly detection in preschoolers.

Jae Engle, Caren M. Walker

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

2017

More than meets the eye: Early relational reasoning cannot be reduced to perceptual heuristics.

Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik

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

The paradox of relational development is not universal: Abstract reasoning develops differently across cultures.

Alexandra Carstensen, Caren M. Walker

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

2015

The early emergence and puzzling decline of relational reasoning: Effects of prior knowledge and search on inferring 'same' and 'different'.

Caren M. Walker, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

2014

Language acquisition and the onset of relational reasoning in infants.

Caren M. Walker, Samantha Hubachek, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

Learning online via prompts to explain.

Joseph Jay Williams, Geza Kovacs, Caren M. Walker, Samuel G. Maldonado, Tania Lombrozo

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014

2013

Effects of Explaining Anomalies on the Generation and Evaluation of Hypotheses.

Joseph Jay Williams, Caren M. Walker, Samuel G. Maldonado, Tania Lombrozo

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

Explaining to Others Prompts Children to Favor Inductively Rich Properties.

Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo, Cristine H. Legare, Alison Gopnik

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

24-Month-Olds Engage in Relational Causal Reasoning.

Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik

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

What if? Counterfactual reasoning, pretense, and the role of possible worlds.

Daphna Buchsbaum, Caren M. Walker, Alison Gopnik, Nick Chater, David Danks, Christopher G. Lucas, Charles Kemp, Eva Rafetseder, Josef Perner

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

2012

Explaining increases belief revision in the face of (many) anomalies.

Joseph Jay Williams, Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Explaining Influences Children's Reliance on Evidence and Prior Knowledge in Causal Induction.

Caren M. Walker, Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Children's Causal Learning from Fiction: Assessing the Proximity Between Real and Fictional Worlds.

Caren M. Walker, Patricia Ganea, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

2011

Early Exposure to Pictures Facilitates Development of Referential Understanding.

Caren M. Walker, Lisa Walker, Patricia Ganea

Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011