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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Alison Gopnik is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a strong emphasis on developmental and educational psychology. The main areas of study also include artificial intelligence, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The topics covered extensively in their work include:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Psychological and Educational Research Studies
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior

Gopnik has contributed to various publication venues frequently. These include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Cognition
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Developmental Science

Their portfolio of recent papers illustrates a focus on developmental psychology and cognition with interdisciplinary connections. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Childhood as a solution to explore-exploit tensions," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The Future of Women in Psychological Science," 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Children are more exploratory and learn more than adults in an approach-avoid task," 2021, Cognition
  • "The future of human behaviour research," 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Distinct electrophysiological signatures of task-unrelated and dynamic thoughts," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research work include Tania Lombrozo, Eliza Kosoy, Mariel K. Goddu, and Rebecca Zhu. These coauthors have contributed to multiple publications alongside Gopnik, demonstrating ongoing collaborative research efforts.

Over their career, Gopnik has received several fellowships, recognizing contributions to their field:

  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2020
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013

Best Publications

  • Words, thoughts, and theories

    Alison Gopnik;Andrew N. Meltzoff

  • Children's understanding of representational change and its relation to the understanding of false belief and the appearance-reality distinction.

    Alison Gopnik;Janet W. Astington

  • A Theory of Causal Learning in Children: Causal Maps and Bayes Nets.

    Alison Gopnik;Clark Glymour;David M. Sobel;Laura E. Schulz

  • How we know our minds: the illusion of first-person knowledge of intentionality

    Alison Gopnik

  • The theory theory.

    Alison Gopnik;Henry M. Wellman

  • Early reasoning about desires: Evidence from 14- and 18-month-olds.

    Betty M. Repacholi;Alison Gopnik

  • Why the Child's Theory of Mind Really Is a Theory

    Alison Gopnik;Henry M. Wellman

  • The scientist in the crib : minds, brains, and how children learn

    Alison Gopnik;Andrew N. Meltzoff;Patricia K. Kuhl

  • Cultural learning. Author's reply

    K. A. Bard;S. Baron-Cohen;B. J. Moore;C. Boesch

  • Reconstructing constructivism: Causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms, and the theory theory.

    Alison Gopnik;Henry M. Wellman

  • Theoretical explanations of children's understanding of the mind

    Janet Wilde Astington;Alison Gopnik

  • The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind

    Alison Gopnik;Andrew N. Meltzoff;Patricia K. Kuhl

  • Causal learning mechanisms in very young children: two-, three-, and four-year-olds infer causal relations from patterns of variation and covariation.

    Alison Gopnik;David M. Sobel;Laura E. Schulz;Clark Glymour

  • Early acquisition of verbs in Korean: a cross-linguistic study

    Soonja Choi;Alison Gopnik

  • Knowing How You Know: Young Children's Ability to Identify and Remember the Sources of Their Beliefs.

    Alison Gopnik;Peter Graf

  • Young Children's Understanding of Changes in Their Mental States.

    Alison Gopnik;Virginia Slaughter

  • Detecting Blickets: How Young Children Use Information about Novel Causal Powers in Categorization and Induction

    Alison Gopnik;David M. Sobel

  • The Development of Categorization in the Second Year and Its Relation to Other Cognitive and Linguistic Developments.

    Alison Gopnik;Andrew Meltzoff

  • Scientific Thinking in Young Children: Theoretical Advances, Empirical Research, and Policy Implications

    Alison Gopnik

  • Causal learning : psychology, philosophy, and computation

    Alison Gopnik;Laura Schulz

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew N. Meltzoff
Andrew N. Meltzoff University of Washington
Tania Lombrozo
Tania Lombrozo Princeton University
David M. Sobel
David M. Sobel Brown University
Henry M. Wellman
Henry M. Wellman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Thierry Nazzi
Thierry Nazzi Université Paris Cité
Michael W. Morris
Michael W. Morris Columbia University
Patricia K. Kuhl
Patricia K. Kuhl University of Washington
Patricia A. Ganea
Patricia A. Ganea University of Toronto
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University

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