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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Steven Piantadosi is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions in developmental and educational psychology, artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, statistics and probability, and cultural studies.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas, including:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Reading and Literacy Development

Recent publications by Piantadosi demonstrate engagement with language, cognition, and neural processes. Notable papers include:

  • "Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought" (2024), published in Nature
  • "Composition is the Core Driver of the Language-selective Network" (2020), published in Neurobiology of Language
  • "The neural basis of predictive pursuit" (2020), published in Nature Neuroscience
  • "A unified account of numerosity perception" (2020), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Recursive sequence generation in monkeys, children, U.S. adults, and native Amazonians" (2020), published in Science Advances

Frequent co-authors in their work include Edward Gibson, Jessica F. Cantlon, Evelina Fedorenko, Joshua Rule, and Samuel Cheyette. These collaborations reflect a cross-disciplinary approach involving cognitive science, neuroscience, and language research.

Piantadosi's research has appeared in several publication venues with repeated contributions to:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Science Advances
  • Open Mind

In addition to articles, Piantadosi has contributed to academic literature through book publications. One such work is "The Cognitive Science of Belief," published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

They have received the Hellman Fellow award in 2020, which recognizes their active role in scientific research.

Best Publications

  • The prevalence of psychological distress by cancer site

    James Zabora;Karlynn Brintzenhofeszoc;Barbara Curbow;Craig M Hooker

  • A randomized trial comparing lung-volume-reduction surgery with medical therapy for severe emphysema.

    Alfred Fishman;Fernando Martinez;Keith Naunheim;Steven Piantadosi

  • Treatment of Colonic and Rectal Adenomas with Sulindac in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis

    Francis M. Giardiello;Stanley R. Hamilton;Anne J. Krush;Steven Piantadosi

  • HLA-Haploidentical Bone Marrow Transplantation for Hematologic Malignancies Using Nonmyeloablative Conditioning and High-Dose, Posttransplantation Cyclophosphamide

    Leo Luznik;Paul V. O'Donnell;Paul V. O'Donnell;Heather J. Symons;Allen R. Chen

  • Genetic progression model for head and neck cancer: Implications for field cancerization

    Joseph Califano;Peter Van Der Riet;William Westra;Homaira Nawroz

  • Placebo-controlled trial of safety and efficacy of intraoperative controlled delivery by biodegradable polymers of chemotherapy for recurrent gliomas

    H Brem;S Piantadosi;S Piantadosi;P.C Burger;M Walker

  • Cholangiocarcinoma. A spectrum of intrahepatic, perihilar, and distal tumors.

    Attila Nakeeb;Henry A. Pitt;Taylor A. Sohn;Jo Ann Coleman

  • Postoperative radiotherapy in nonsmall-cell lung cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data from nine randomised controlled trials

    S Burdett;Mkb Parmar;LA Stewart;RL Souhami

  • [American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline update on chemotherapy for stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer].

    Christopher G. Azzoli;Sherman Baker;Sarah Temin;William Pao

  • THE ECOLOGICAL FALLACY

    Steven Piantadosi;David P. Byar;Sylvan B. Green

  • Spinal cord stimulation versus repeated lumbosacral spine surgery for chronic pain: a randomized, controlled trial.

    Richard B. North;David H. Kidd;Farrokh Farrokhi;Steven A. Piantadosi

  • Biochemical (Prostate Specific Antigen) Recurrence Probability Following Radical Prostatectomy for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer

    Misop Han;Alan W Partin;Marianna Zahurak;Steven Piantadosi

  • Clinical Trials : A Methodologic Perspective

    Steven Piantadosi

  • Allelic Loss of Chromosome 18q and Prognosis in Colorectal Cancer

    Jin Jen;Hoguen Kim;Steven Piantadosi;Zong Fan Liu

  • Decreased erythropoietin response in patients with the anemia of cancer.

    Carole B. Miller;Richard J. Jones;Steven Piantadosi;Martin D. Abeloff

  • Patients at high risk of death after lung-volume-reduction surgery

    Alfred Fishman;Henry Fessler;Fernando Martinez

  • Prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial comparing traditional versus reduced tidal volume ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome patients.

    Roy G. Brower;Carl B. Shanholtz;Carl B. Shanholtz;Henry E. Fessler;David M. Shade

  • Identification of endothelin-1 in the pathophysiology of metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate.

    Joel B. Nelson;Sean P. Hedican;Daniel J. George;A. H. Reddi

  • Induction of immunity to prostate cancer antigens: results of a clinical trial of vaccination with irradiated autologous prostate tumor cells engineered to secrete granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor using ex vivo gene transfer

    Jonathan W Simons;Bahar Mikhak;Ju-Fay Chang;Angelo M DeMarzo

  • A genetic progression model for head and neck cancer: Implications for field cancerization

    Joseph A. Califano;Gary Clayman;David Sidransky;Wayne Koch

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart A. Grossman
Stuart A. Grossman Johns Hopkins University
Marianna Zahurak
Marianna Zahurak Johns Hopkins University
Richard J. Jones
Richard J. Jones Johns Hopkins University
Alan W. Partin
Alan W. Partin Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jessica F. Cantlon
Jessica F. Cantlon Carnegie Mellon University
George W. Santos
George W. Santos Johns Hopkins University
Robert A. Figlin
Robert A. Figlin Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Benjamin Y. Hayden
Benjamin Y. Hayden Baylor College of Medicine

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