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Chu, J., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, L. E. (2024). In praise of folly: Flexible goals and human cognition. PsyArXiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/zxbqr
Chu, J., & Schulz, L. E. (2023). Not playing by the rules: Exploratory play, rational action, and efficient search. Open Mind. doi: 10.1162/opmi_a_00076
Erel, Y., Shannon, K. A., Chu, J., Scott, K., Kline Struhl, M., Cao, P., Tan, X., Hart, P., Raz, G., Piccolo, S., et al. (2023). iCatcher+: Robust and automated annotation of infants’ and young children’s gaze behavior from videos collected in laboratory, field, and online studies. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 6(2), 25152459221147250. doi: 10.1177/25152459221147250
Chu, J., & Schulz, L. E. (2022). Because i want to: Valuing goals for their own sake. Roceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44.
Coates, N., Siegel, M., Chu, J., Kline, M., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, L. E. (2022). Preschoolers’ sensitivity to abstract correlations in the properties of sets and functions. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44.
Chu, J., & Schulz, L. E. (2021). Children selectively endorse speculative conjectures. Child Development, 92(6), e1342–e1360. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13647
Diggs-Galligan, S., Chu, J., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, L. E. (2021). Explore, exploit, create: Inventing goals in play. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43.
Lapidow, E., Chu, J., & Walker, C. M. (2021). Knowing the shape of the solution: Causal structure constrains evaluation of possible causes. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43.
Chu, J., Cheung, P., Schneider, R. M., Sullivan, J., & Barner, D. (2020). Counting to infinity: Does learning the syntax of the count list predict knowledge that numbers are infinite? Cognitive Science, 44(e12875). doi: 10.1111/cogs.12875
Chu, J., & Schulz, L. E. (2020). Play, curiosity, and cognition. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 2. doi: 10.1146/annurev-devpsych-070120-014806
Brooke-Wilson, T., Rosenfeld, J. S., Hofer, M., Chu, J., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2019). Simplicity and probability in human judgment. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 41, 1457.
Barner, D., Athanasopoulou, A., Chu, J., Lewis, M., Marchand, E., Schneider, R., & Frank, M. (2018). A one-year classroom-randomized trial of mental abacus instruction for first-and second-grade students. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 3(3). doi: 10.5964/jnc.v3i3.106
Wagner, K., Chu, J., & Barner, D. (2018). Do children’s number words begin noisy? Developmental Science, e12752. doi: 10.1111/desc.12752
Chu, J., Rittle-Johnson, B., & Fyfe, E. R. (2017). Diagrams benefit symbolic problem-solving. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 87(2), 273–287. doi: 10.1111/bjep.12149
Scott, K., Chu, J., & Schulz, L. E. (2017). Lookit (part 2): Assessing the viability of online developmental research, results from three case studies. Open Mind, 1(1), 15–29. doi: 10.1162/OPMI_a_00001