Alison Gopnik
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Cognitive scientist, psychologist, philosopher, author of Scientist in the Crib, Philosophical Baby, The Gardener & The Carpenter, WSJ Mind And Matter columnist
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2 months ago |
science.org | Lianjie Miao |Nikos Koundouros |Henry Farrell |Alison Gopnik
Information & AuthorsPublished In ScienceVolume 387 | Issue 673914 March 2025Article versionsSubmission historyPublished in print: 14 March 2025PermissionsRequest permissions for this article. AcknowledgmentsAll authors contributed equally to this work. J.E. began a visiting researcher affiliation with Google after this manuscript was submitted.
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Aug 16, 2024 |
creativitypost.com | Joanne Foster |Eunice Yiu |Eliza Kosoy |Alison Gopnik
“Next-levelling” involves advancing—pushing forward, upward, outward, or onward. It requires effort, and initiative. It’s important at the outset of a new academic year or school term, but it’s equally important as a school year ramps up and gets into full swing. Whether kids’ pursuits have to do with creative endeavors, educational programs, interests (such as sports, art, music, technology, trucks), or something else altogether—there’s always room for growth.
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Jul 24, 2024 |
oecs.mit.edu | Alison Gopnik
Learning about the causal structure of the world is a fundamental problem for human cognition. Over the past 20 years, cognitive scientists have applied advances in our understanding of causation in philosophy and computer science, particularly within the Causal Bayes Net formalism, to understand human causal learning. The formalism specifies a probabilistic generative model that describes the causal relations between variables.
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Jul 1, 2024 |
creativitypost.com | Joanne Foster |Eunice Yiu |Eliza Kosoy |Alison Gopnik
Over my 40-plus year career as an academic clinician working with highly able (i.e., gifted and talented; high ability) children and youth, I have observed with keen interest and even fascination the maturing development of the related fields of gifted education, expertise, and talent development. In my opinion, there now are a few critically important, irrefutable facts that those who work with high ability children can agree upon.
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Jun 20, 2024 |
nature.com | Kelsey Allen |Franziska Brändle |Matthew Botvinick |Judith E. Fan |Samuel J. Gershman |Alison Gopnik | +14 more
AbstractBoard, card or video games have been played by virtually every individual in the world. Games are popular because they are intuitive and fun. These distinctive qualities of games also make them ideal for studying the mind. By being intuitive, games provide a unique vantage point for understanding the inductive biases that support behaviour in more complex, ecological settings than traditional laboratory experiments.
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