Publications
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Cao, A, Lewis, M., Tsuji, S., Bergmann, C., Cristia, A., & Frank, M. C. (under review). Estimating age-related change in infants’ linguistic and cognitive development using (meta-)meta-analysis.
*Raz, G., *Cao, A, Saxe, R., & Frank, M. C. (under review). A stimulus-computable rational model of habituation in infants and adults.
Carstensen, A., Cao, A., Tan, W. M. A., Liu, D., Liu, Y., Minh, K. B., Wang-Zhao., J., Diep, A., N., Han, Q., Frank, M. C., & Walker, C. M (2024). Cognitive diversity in context: US-China differences in children’s reasoning, visual attention, and social cognition. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46, No. 46).
*Cao, A, *Raz, G., Saxe, R., & Frank, M. C. (2024). Predicting graded dishabituation using perceptual stimulus embeddings in a rational learning model. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46, No. 46).
Kosie, J. E., Zettersten, M., …, Cao, A., … & Lew-Williams, C. (Stage 1 registered report, in‑principle acceptance). ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. Nature Human Behaviour.
*Cao, A., *Carstensen, A., Gao, S., & Frank, M.C. (2024). US-China differences in cognition and perception across 12 tasks: Replicability, robustness, and within-culture variation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Chuey, A., Boyce, V., Cao, A., & Frank, M.C. (2024). Conducting developmental research online vs. in-person: A meta-analysis. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science.
*Raz, G., *Cao, A, Frank, M.C., & Saxe, R. (2023). Modeling habituation in infants and adults using rational curiosity over perceptual embeddings. In Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning Workshop at the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023).
Cao, A., Lewis, M., & Frank, M.C. (2023). A synthesis of early cognitive and language development using (meta-)meta-analysis.. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45).
Raz, G., Cao, A., Bui, M., Frank, M.C., & Saxe, R. (2023). No evidence for familiarity preferences after limited exposure to visual concepts in preschoolers and infants..In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45)
Cao, A., Raz, G., Saxe, R., & Frank, M.C. (2023). Habituation reflects optimal exploration over noisy perceptual samples. Topics in Cognitive Science.
Cao, A., & Lewis, M. (2022). Quantifying the syntactic bootstrapping effect in verb learning: A meta-analytic synthesis. Developmental Science, 25(2), e13176.
*Carstensen, A., *Cao, A., Gao, S., and Frank, M.C. (2021). Investigating cross-cultural differences in reasoning, vision, and social cognition through replication. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.