RESEARCH PAPERS
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Martí, L., Piantadosi, S., Kidd, C. (Under review.)
Abundant diversity in human conceptual understanding.
Wu, S., Meschke, E., Blanchard, T., Aslin, R.N., Hayden, B.Y., & Kidd, C., (In prep).
Macaques preferentially attend to intermediately surprising information.
Macias, C. & Kidd, C. (In prep.)
Evidence of strategic memory encoding capabilities in young children.
Martí, L., Conover, A. O’Shaughnessy, & Kidd, C. (In prep).
Predictors of flat earth beliefs in the population.
Bi, B, Martí, L., O'Shaughnessy, D., & Kidd, C. (In prep.)
The influence of accent on semantic meaning.
Pelz, M. & Kidd, C. (In prep.)
The dynamics of attentional switching in a complex environment.
Piantadosi, S.T., Mahowald, K., Kidd, C., Futrell, R., & Gibson, E. (In prep.)Lexical prescriptivism reduces communicative efficiency.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Cubit, Laura S., Canale, R., Handsman, R., Kidd, C., Bennetto, L. (2021.)
Visual attention preference for intermediate predictability in young children.
Child Development, 0(0), 1-13. [PDF]
Pelz, M., & Kidd, C. (2020.)
The elaboration of exploratory play.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1803), 20190503. [PDF]
Sumner, E. DeAngelis, E., Hyatt, M., Goodman, N.D., & Kidd, C. (2019.)
Cake or Broccoli? Recency biases children’s verbal responses.
PLOS ONE, 14(6): e0217207. [PDF]
Wade, S., & Kidd, C. (2019.)
The role of prior knowledge and curiosity on learning.
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26(4), 1377-1387. [PDF}
Wade, S., & Kidd, C. (2018.)
Cross cultural differences in the influence of peers on exploration during play.
Cognitive Science, 42(8), 3050-3070. [PDF]
Martí, L., Mollica, F., Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2018.)
Certainty is primarily determined by past performance during concept learning.
Open Mind, 2(2), 47-60. [PDF]
Mintz, T.H., Walker, R.L., Welday, A., & Kidd, C. (2018.)
Infantsʼ universal sensitivity to vowel harmony and their use of vowel harmony as a cue for segmenting speech.
Cognition, 171, 95-107. [PDF]
Undurraga, E.A., Behrman, J.R., Emmett, S.D., Kidd, C., Piantadosi, S.T., Reyes-García, V., Sharma, A., Zhang, R., & Godoy, R.A. (2018.)
Child stunting is associated with weaker human capital among native Amazonians.
American Journal of Human Biology, 30(1), E23059. [PDF]
Hemmer, P., Persaud, K., Kidd, C., & Piantadosi, S.T. (2017.)
Seeing Colors: Cultural and environmental influences on episodic memory.
I-Perception, 8(6), 1-5. [PDF]
Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2016.)
Extraordinary intelligence and the care of infants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(25), 6874-6879. [PDF]
Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2016.)
Endogenous or exogenous? The data don't say.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(20), E2764. [PDF]
Kidd, C., & Hayden, B.Y. (2015.)
The psychology and neuroscience of curiosity.
Neuron, 88(3), 449-460. [PDF]
Jara-Ettinger, J., Gibson, E., Kidd, C., & Piantadosi, S.T. (2015.)
Native Amazonian children forego egalitarianism when they learn to count.
Developmental Science, 19(6), 1104-1110. [PDF]
Kidd, C., Piantadosi, S.T., & Aslin, R.N. (2014.)
The Goldilocks effect in infant auditory cognition.
Child Development, 85(5),1795-804. [PDF]
Piantadosi, S.T., Kidd, C., & Aslin, R.N. (2014.)
Rich Analysis and Rational Models: Inferring individual behavior from infant looking data.
Developmental Science, 17(3), 321–337. [PDF]
Kidd, C., Palmeri, H., & Aslin, R.N. (2013.)
Rational Snacking: Young children’s decision-making on the marshmallow task is moderated by beliefs about environmental reliability.
Cognition, 126, 109-114. [PDF]
Kidd, C., Piantadosi, S.T., & Aslin, R.N. (2012.)
The Goldilocks Effect: Human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex.
PLOS ONE, 7(5), e36399. [PDF]
Kidd, C., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2011.)
Toddlers use speech disfluencies to predict speakers’ referential intentions.
Developmental Science, 14(4), 925–934. [PDF]
McGovern, G.C., Kidd, C., & Piantadosi, S.T. (2010.)
Psychology of authority in quid pro quo sexual harassment cases: 50 years of psychological science demonstrate the influence of authority and social norms.
Louisiana Advocates (pp. 14-17). Baton Rouge: Louisiana Association for Justice. [PDF]
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS PAPERS
Wade, S., & Kidd, C. (2020).
Influence of topic knowledge on curiosity.
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Martí, L., Mollica, F., Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2019).
Same Words, Same Context, Different Meanings: People are unaware that their own concepts are not always shared.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Ullman, T.D., Alonso-Diaz, S., Ferrigno, S., Zahid, S., & Kidd, C. (2017.)
Weighty matters: The role of physical weight in non-physical language across age and culture.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Azab, H., Ruskin, D. & Kidd, C. (2016).
Adults' guesses on probabilistic tasks reveal incremental representativeness biases.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Martí, L., Mollica, F., Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2016).
The metacognition of certainty.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Hemmer, P., Persaud, K., Kidd, C., & Piantadosi, S.T. (2015.)
Inferring the Tsimane' people's use of color categories from recognition memory.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Macias, C., Yung, A., Hemmer, P., & Kidd, C. (2015.)
Memory strategically encodes externally unavailable information.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Partridge, E., McGovern, M., Yung, A., & Kidd, C. (2015.)
Young children's self-directed information gathering on touchscreens.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Pelz, M., Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2015.)
The dynamics of idealized attention in complex learning environments.
Proceedings of the Fifth Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics. [PDF]
Pelz, M., Yung, A., & Kidd, C. (2015.)
Quantifying Curiosity and Exploratory Play on Touchscreen Tablets.
Proceedings of the IDC 2015 Workshop on Digital Assessment and Promotion of Children's Curiosity. [PDF]
Sumner, E., DeAngelis, E., Hyatt, M., Goodman, N.D., & Kidd, C. (2015.)
Toddlers Always Get the Last Word: Recency biases in early verbal behavior.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Wade, S., & Kidd, C. (2015.)
Cross-cultural comparison of peer influence on discovery rate during play.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Kidd, C., Piantadosi, S.T., & Aslin, R.N. (2010.)
The Goldilocks Effect: Infantsʼ preference for visual stimuli that are neither too predictable nor too surprising.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2476-2481). [PDF]
Kidd, C., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2009.)
Children’s use of disfluencies for pragmatic inference in lexical development.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1494-1499). [PDF]
OTHER PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Kidd, C. (2018.)
Summary of responses to dialog initiation “Curiosity as driver of extreme specialization in humans”.
IEEE Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDS) Newsletter, 15(1), 15. [SUMMARY PDF] [ISSUE PDF]
Kidd, C. (2017.)
Curiosity as Driver of Extreme Specialization in Humans.
IEEE Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDS) Newsletter, 14(2), 12-13. [PDF]
Kidd, C. (2016.)
The Importance of Conceptual Replications for Testing Computational Cognitive Theories.
IEEE Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDS) Newsletter, 13(2), 10-11. [PDF]
Oudeyer, P., Lopes, M., Kidd, C., & Gottlieb, J. (2016.)
Curiosity and intrinsic motivation for autonomous machine learning.
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) News, 17, 34-35. [PDF]
Kidd, C. (2013.)
Rational Approaches to Learning and Development.
Ph.D. Thesis, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester. [THESIS PDF] [SYNOPSIS PDF]
Kidd, C., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2011.)
Learning the Meaning of “Um”: Toddlersʼ developing use of speech disfluencies as cues to speakersʼ referential intentions.
In I. Arnon & E.V. Clark (Eds.), Experience, Variation, and Generalization: Learning a First Language (Trends in Language Acquisition Research).
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (pp. 91–106). [PDF]