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    Is there a cell-biological alphabet for simple forms of learning?Robert D. Hawkins & Eric R. Kandel - 1984 - Psychological Review 91 (3):375-391.
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    When redundancy is useful: A Bayesian approach to “overinformative” referring expressions.Judith Degen, Robert D. Hawkins, Caroline Graf, Elisa Kreiss & Noah D. Goodman - 2020 - Psychological Review 127 (4):591-621.
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    The Division of Labor in Communication: Speakers Help Listeners Account for Asymmetries in Visual Perspective.Robert D. Hawkins, Hyowon Gweon & Noah D. Goodman - 2021 - Cognitive Science 45 (3):e12926.
    Recent debates over adults' theory of mind use have been fueled by surprising failures of perspective-taking in communication, suggesting that perspective-taking may be relatively effortful. Yet adults routinely engage in effortful processes when needed. How, then, should speakers and listeners allocate their resources to achieve successful communication? We begin with the observation that the shared goal of communication induces a natural division of labor: The resources one agent chooses to allocate toward perspective-taking should depend on their expectations about the other's (...)
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    From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention.Robert D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Michael C. Frank, Adele E. Goldberg, Kenny Smith, Thomas L. Griffiths & Noah D. Goodman - 2023 - Psychological Review 130 (4):977-1016.
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    Shades of confusion: Lexical uncertainty modulates ad hoc coordination in an interactive communication task.Sonia K. Murthy, Thomas L. Griffiths & Robert D. Hawkins - 2022 - Cognition 225 (C):105152.
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    Show or tell? Exploring when (and why) teaching with language outperforms demonstration.Theodore R. Sumers, Mark K. Ho, Robert D. Hawkins & Thomas L. Griffiths - 2023 - Cognition 232 (C):105326.
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    Characterizing the Dynamics of Learning in Repeated Reference Games.Robert D. Hawkins, Michael C. Frank & Noah D. Goodman - 2020 - Cognitive Science 44 (6):e12845.
    The language we use over the course of conversation changes as we establish common ground and learn what our partner finds meaningful. Here we draw upon recent advances in natural language processing to provide a finer‐grained characterization of the dynamics of this learning process. We release an open corpus (>15,000 utterances) of extended dyadic interactions in a classic repeated reference game task where pairs of participants had to coordinate on how to refer to initially difficult‐to‐describe tangram stimuli. We find that (...)
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    Reconciling truthfulness and relevance as epistemic and decision-theoretic utility.Theodore R. Sumers, Mark K. Ho, Thomas L. Griffiths & Robert D. Hawkins - 2024 - Psychological Review 131 (1):194-230.
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    A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Adaptive Teaching.Alicia M. Chen, Andrew Palacci, Natalia Vélez, Robert D. Hawkins & Samuel J. Gershman - 2024 - Cognitive Science 48 (7):e13477.
    How do teachers learn about what learners already know? How do learners aid teachers by providing them with information about their background knowledge and what they find confusing? We formalize this collaborative reasoning process using a hierarchical Bayesian model of pedagogy. We then evaluate this model in two online behavioral experiments (N = 312 adults). In Experiment 1, we show that teachers select examples that account for learners' background knowledge, and adjust their examples based on learners' feedback. In Experiment 2, (...)
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    LTP and learning: Let's stay together.Robert D. Hawkins - 1997 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (4):620-621.
    The hypothesis that there is a 1:1 correspondence between LTP and learning is simplistic, and the correlation approach to testing it is therefore too limited. The alternative hypothesis that LTP plays a role in arousal is consistent with activity-dependent neuromodulation, but ignores the Hebbian properties of LTP. LTP may involve both types of mechanisms, suggesting a possible synthesis of the two hypotheses.
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