Publications

  1. Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks
    Mathew D Hardy, Bill D Thompson, PM Krafft, and Thomas L Griffiths
    Nature Human Behaviour, 2023
  2. An ever-evolving mind
    Bill Thompson
    Science, 2022
  3. Learning to Learn Functions
    Michael Y. Li, Fred Callaway, Bill D. Thompson, Ryan P. Adams, and Thomas L. Griffiths
    Cognitive Science, 2023
  4. Iterated learning reveals stereotypes of facial trustworthiness that propagate in the absence of evidence
    Stefan Uddenberg, Bill D Thompson, Madalina Vlasceanu, Thomas L Griffiths, and Alexander Todorov
    Cognition, 2023
  5. How do Humans Overcome Individual Computational Limitations by Working Together?
    Natalia Vélez, Brian Christian, Mathew Hardy, Bill D Thompson, and Thomas L Griffiths
    Cognitive Science, 2023
  6. Hidden Differences in Phenomenal Experience
    Gary Lupyan, Ryutaro Uchiyama, Bill Thompson, and Daniel Casasanto
    Cognitive Science, 2023
  7. Complex cognitive algorithms preserved by selective social learning in experimental populations
    Bill Thompson, Bas van Opheusden, Ted Sumers, and Thomas L. Griffiths
    Science, 2022
  8. Overcoming Individual Limitations Through Distributed Computation: Rational Information Accumulation in Multigenerational Populations
    Mathew D. Hardy, Peaks M. Krafft, Bill Thompson, and Thomas L. Griffiths
    Topics in Cognitive Science, 2022
  9. Human biases limit cumulative innovation
    Bill Thompson, and Thomas L. Griffiths
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Mar 2021
  10. Robust, source-independent biases in children’s use of socially and individually acquired information
    Mark Atkinson, Elizabeth Renner, Bill Thompson, Gemma Mackintosh, Dongjie Xie, and 2 more authors
    Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, Apr 2021
  11. subs2vec: Word embeddings from subtitles in 55 languages
    Jeroen Paridon, and Bill Thompson
    Behavior Research Methods, Apr 2021
  12. Cultural influences on word meanings revealed through large-scale semantic alignment
    Bill Thompson, Seán G. Roberts, and Gary Lupyan
    Nature Human Behaviour, Oct 2020
    Number: 10
  13. Biased transformation erases traditions sustained by conformist transmission
    Thomas J. H. Morgan, and Bill Thompson
    Biology Letters, Nov 2020
    Publisher: Royal Society
  14. A data-driven approach to the semantics of iconicity in American Sign Language and English
    Bill Thompson, Marcus Perlman, Gary Lupyan, Zed Sevcikova Sehyr, and Karen Emmorey
    Language and Cognition, Mar 2020
  15. Playful iconicity: structural markedness underlies the relation between funniness and iconicity
    Mark Dingemanse, and Bill Thompson
    Language and Cognition, Mar 2020
  16. Evolutionary Dynamics Do Not Motivate a Single-Mutant Theory of Human Language
    Bart Boer, Bill Thompson, Andrea Ravignani, and Cedric Boeckx
    Scientific Reports, Jan 2020
  17. Population-level amplification of perceptual bias
    Mathew Hardy, Bill Thompson, Peter M. Krafft, and Tom Griffiths
    In Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020, virtual, July 29 - August 1, 2020, Jan 2020
  18. Downloading Culture.zip: Social learning by program induction
    Max Kleiman-Weiner, Felix Sosa, Bill Thompson, Sebastiaan Opheusden, Tom Griffiths, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020, virtual, July 29 - August 1, 2020, Jan 2020
  19. Interpreting Silent Gesture: Cognitive Biases and Rational Inference in Emerging Language Systems
    Marieke Schouwstra, Henriëtte Swart, and Bill Thompson
    Cognitive Science, Jan 2019
  20. Inductive Biases Constrain Cumulative Cultural Evolution
    Bill Thompson, and Tom Griffiths
    In Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2019: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, Montreal, Canada, July 24-27, 2019, Jan 2019
  21. Using Universal Dependencies in cross-linguistic complexity research
    Aleksandrs Berdicevskis,  Cöltekin, Katharina Ehret, Kilu Prince, Daniel Ross, and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies, UDW@EMNLP 2018, Brussels, Belgium, November 1, 2018, Jan 2018
  22. Predictors of L2 word learning accuracy: A big data investigation
    Elise Hopman, Bill Thompson, Joseph L. Austerweil, and Gary Lupyan
    In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018, Madison, WI, USA, July 25-28, 2018, Jan 2018
  23. Automatic Estimation of Lexical Concreteness in 77 Languages
    Bill Thompson, and Gary Lupyan
    In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018, Madison, WI, USA, July 25-28, 2018, Jan 2018
  24. Quantifying Semantic Similarity Across Languages
    Bill Thompson, Sean Roberts, and Gary Lupyan
    In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018, Madison, WI, USA, July 25-28, 2018, Jan 2018
  25. Evolving building blocks of rhythm: how human cognition creates music via cultural transmission
    Andrea Ravignani, Bill Thompson, Thomas Grossi, Tania Delgado, and Simon Kirby
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Mar 2018
  26. Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Vocabulary: A Comparison Between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish
    Marcus Perlman, Hannah Little, Bill Thompson, and Robin L. Thompson
    Frontiers in Psychology, Aug 2018
  27. Introducing Parselmouth: A Python interface to Praat
    Yannick Jadoul, Bill Thompson, and Bart Boer
    Journal of Phonetics, Nov 2018
  28. Biology-Culture Co-evolution in Finite Populations
    Bart Boer, and Bill Thompson
    Scientific Reports, Jan 2018
    Number: 1 Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
  29. Why Do Durations in Musical Rhythms Conform to Small Integer Ratios?
    Andrea Ravignani, Bill Thompson, Massimo Lumaca, and Manon Grube
    Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Jan 2018
  30. The Evolution of Musicality: What Can Be Learned from Language Evolution Research?
    Andrea Ravignani, Bill Thompson, and Piera Filippi
    Frontiers in Neuroscience, Jan 2018
  33. Seeking Temporal Predictability in Speech: Comparing Statistical Approaches on 18 World Languages
    Yannick Jadoul, Andrea Ravignani, Bill Thompson, Piera Filippi, and Bart Boer
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Jun 2016
  34. Culture shapes the evolution of cognition
    Bill Thompson, Simon Kirby, and Kenny Smith
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Apr 2016
    Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  35. Regularization behavior in a non-linguistic domain
    Vanessa Ferdinand, Bill Thompson, Simon Kirby, and Kenny Smith
    In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013, Berlin, Germany, July 31 - August 3, 2013, Apr 2013
  36. Learning to Learn From Similar Others: Approximate Bayesian Computation Through Babbling
    Bill Thompson, and Heikki Rasilo
    In The Evolution of Language: proceedings of the 11th International Conference, Apr 2016
  37. Social Interaction Influences the Evolution of Cognitive Biases for Language
    Sean Roberts, Bill Thompson, and Kenny Smith
    In The Evolution of Language: proceedings of the 9th International Conference, Apr 2014