Message passing: how software engineers use talk. - Christopher Bates (2014)

Humans predict liquid dynamics using probabilistic simulation. - Christopher Bates; Peter W. Battaglia; Ilker Yildirim; Joshua B. Tenenbaum (CogSci, 2015)

Efficient Data Compression Leads to Categorical Bias in Perception and Perceptual Memory. - Christopher Bates; Robert Jacobs (CogSci, 2019)

Modeling human intuitions about liquid flow with particle-based simulation. - Christopher Bates; Ilker Yildirim; Joshua B. Tenenbaum; Peter W. Battaglia (PLoS Comput. Biol., 2019)

Attentional Allocation as Optimal Compression in Visual Search. - Christopher Bates; Robert Jacobs (CogSci, 2020)

Coding Strategies in Memory for 3D Objects: The Influence of Task Uncertainty. - Christopher Bates; Samuel Gershman (CogSci, 2022)

Synthesizing world models for bilevel planning. - Zergham Ahmed; Joshua B. Tenenbaum; Christopher Bates; Samuel J. Gershman (Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2025)