Lapidow, E., Stein, A., & Walker, C. M. (2023). Children Use Causality as a guide to Question-Asking.Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [ PDF ]
Lapidow, E. & Walker, C. M. (2022). Clarifying the causal logic of a classic Control of variables task.Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [ PDF ]
Lapidow, E., Goddu, M. K., & Walker, C. M. (2022). Reasoning from samples to populations; Children use Variability information to predict novel outcomes.Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.[ PDF ]
Lapidow, E., Killeen, I., & Walker, C. M. (2020). Exploration Decisions Precede and Improve Explicit Uncertainty Judgments in Preschoolers.Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [ PDF ]
Lapidow, E. & Walker, C. M. (2019). Does the intuitive scientist conduct informative experiments?: Children’s early ability to select and learn from their own interventions. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [ PDF ]
Choi, K., Lapidow, E., Austin, J., Shafto, P. & Bonawitz, E. (2018) Preschoolers are more likely to direct questions to adults than to other children (or selves) during spontaneous conversational act. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [ PDF ]
Presentations
CONFERENCE TALKS
Lapidow, E., &Walker, C. M. (June, 2023). Clarifying the causal logic of a classic control of variables task.Talk given at Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
Lapidow, E., Stein, A., & Walker, C. M. (March, 2023). Do Children use causal knowledge as a guide during information search? Talk given at Society for Research in Child Development conference, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Lapidow, E.,& Walker, C. M. (January, 2023). Clarifying the causal logic of a classic control of variables task. Talk given at Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary-Remote.
Lapidow, E. & Walker, C. M. (july, 2022). Clarifying the causal logic of a classic Control of variables task. Talk given at the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. toronto, Canada.
Lapidow, E., & Walker, C. M. (june, 2021). Search for Invariance Hypothesis: A Causal Learning Account of Positive Testing. Talk Given at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference. Virtual Meeting.
Lapidow, E., & Killeen, I., & Walker, C. M. (july, 2020). Exploration Decisions Precede and Improve Explicit Uncertainty Judgments in Preschoolers. Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Virtual Meeting.
Lapidow, E., & Walker, C. M. (july, 2019). Do Young Children Select Informative Actions during Exploratory Learning? Talk given at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference. San Diego, CA.
Lapidow, E., & Walker, C. M. (march, 2019). Does the Intuitive Scientist do Informative Experiments?: Children’s ability to select and learn from their own interventions during causal learning. Talk given for referred Society for Research in Child Development Paper Symposium: Information Gain as a Guide for Decision-Making in Early Exploratory Learning. Baltimore, MD.
Lapidow, E., & Walker, C. M. (july, 2018). Expectations of Causal Structure Influence Preschoolers’ Choice of Interventions. Student talk given at Central European University, Summer University: Thinking About the Possible. Budapest, Hungary.
Lapidow, E. S., & Bonawitz, E. B. (October, 2017). Preschooler’s Causal Hypothesis Testing Reveals Developmental Shifts in the Use of Temporal and Pedagogical Information. Talk given for Cognitive Development Society Conference. Portland, OR.
Lapidow, E. S., & Bonawitz, E. B. (june, 2017). Rational Action: Ambiguity, Expectation, and Information Gain Influence Preschooler’s Choices in Exploration. Talk given for Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference. Baltimore, MD.
Bonawitz, E. B. & Lapidow, E. S. (april, 2017). Ambiguity, Expectation, and Information Gain Influence Preschooler’s Choices in Explore-Exploit Tasks. Talk given for referred Society for Research in Child Development Paper Symposium: Formal models of the development of learning and decision-making. Austin, TX.
Lapidow, E. S., & Bonawitz, E. B. (august, 2016). Rational Action: Ambiguity, Expectation, and Information Gain Influence Preschooler’s Choices in Exploration. Talk given for referred workshop: Active learning: Cognitive development, education, and computational models. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA.
INVITED TALKS
Inaugural Speaker, Postdoctoral Appreciation Lecture Series, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada – Clarifying the Nature of Learning and Exploration in Childhood (September, 2024)
DIG Talk Series, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Understanding Children’s Self-Directed Learning (November, 2023)
Jacobs foundation 2023 conference - Junior Scholar Talk, Cascais, Portugal — Understanding self-directed learners as intuitive Causal scientists. (May, 2023)
Department of Psychology, SUNY Purchase College, New York — Understanding children’s self-directed learning. (May, 2023)
Computational Cognitive Science Group Meeting, University of Edinburgh, Scotland — Search for Invariance Hypothesis: a Causal learning Account of Positive Testing. (November, 2022)
Causality In Cognition lab Meeting, Stanford University, California — Search for Invariance Hypothesis: a Causal learning Account of Positive Testing. (October, 2021)
iSearch Research Group Meeting at the Max Plank Institute for Human Development, Berlin — Does the intuitive Scientist do Informative experiments? (April, 2019)
Memory and Emotion Lab Meeting, Sarah Lawrence College, New York — Choosing to Learn: Action, Inference, and Decision-Making in Learning and Exploration. (june, 2017)
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Stein, A., Lapidow, E., Thomas, G., & Walker, C. M. (June, 2024). Causal Knowledge as a Guide to Question Asking in Childhood. Society for Philosophy and Psychology, West Lafayette, IN.
Lapidow, E., Stein, A., & Walker, C. M. (March, 2024). Children use causal knowledge to identify better questions during information search. Poster presented at Cognitive Development Society Conference, Pasadena, CA.
Lapidow, E., Stein, A., & Walker, C. M. (July, 2023). Children use causality as guide to question asking. Poster presented at Annual Meeting of The Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia.
Lapidow, E., Goddu, M., & Walker, C. M. (July, 2022). Reasoning from Samples to Populations: children use variability information to predict novel outcomes. Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the cognitive science Society, Toronto, Canada.
Lapidow, E., & Walker, C. M. (April, 2022). Rethinking the Gap Between Exploratory Learning and Scientific Reasoning: Causal Logic within the Control of Variables Task. Poster presented at Child Development Society, Madison, WI.
Lapidow, E., & Walker, C. M. (April, 2022). The Search for Invariance Hypothesis: A Causal Learning Account of Positive Testing. Poster presented at Child Development Society Preconference: Theory-Theory Turns Thirty- Something, Madison, WI.
Lapidow, E., Chu, J., & Walker, C. M. (July, 2021). Knowing the Shape of the Solution: Causal Structure Constrains Evaluation of Possible Causes. Poster presented at Cognitive Science Society, Virtual Meeting.
Lapidow, E., Goddu, M., & Walker, C. M. (April, 2021). Reasoning from Samples to Populations: Can children use variability information to predict future outcomes? Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Virtual Meeting.
Lapidow, E., Goddu, M., & Walker, C. M. (January, 2021). Reasoning from Samples to Populations: Can children use variability information to predict future outcomes? Poster presented at the budapest CEU Conference on cognitive Development, Virtual Meeting.
Lapidow, E., Killeen, I., & Walker, C. M. (October, 2019). Information-seeking as implicit uncertainty monitoring in childhood. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Child Development Society conference, Louisville, KY.
Lapidow, E., Ruggeri, A., & Walker, C. M. (July, 2019). Goal-Guided Exploration: Does learning goal influence exploration behavior in childhood? Poster presented at referred workshop: Guided Playful Learning: Developmental, Computational, and Educational Perspectives. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada.
Lapidow, E., & Walker, C. M. (July, 2019). Does the Intuitive Scientist do Informative Experiments?: Children’s ability to select and learn from their own interventions during causal learning. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada.
Lapidow, E., Bonawitz, E., Shafto, P., Austin, J., Choi, K., Tariq, S., & Bell, C. (October, 2017). Preschoolers are more likely to direct questions to adults than to other children (or selves) during spontaneous conversational acts. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Pre-Conference Workshop on Question Asking on Childhood, Portland, OR.
Lapidow, E. S., Bonawitz, E.B. (august, 2016). Ambiguity, Expectation, and Information Gain Influence Preschooler’s Choices in Exploration-Exploitation Tasks. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA.
Lapidow, E. S., Bonawitz, E.B. (august, 2016). Distributional Information Guides Adult Learners’ Decision Making. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA.
Lapidow, E. S., Bonawitz, E.B. (august, 2016). Distributional Information Guides Adult Learners’ Decision Making. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, New Brunswick, NJ.
Lapidow, E. S., Bonawitz, E.B. (October, 2015). Preschoolers Use Probability Information to Guide Exploration-Exploitation. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Child Development Society conference, Columbus, OH.
