Papers

Journal Articles

Williams, J. J., & Lombrozo, T. (2010a). The role of explanation in discovery and generalization: evidence from category learning. Cognitive Science. (pdf)

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Williams, J. J., Lombrozo, T., & Rehder, B. (2011). Explaining drives the discovery of real and illusory patterns. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

Williams, J. J., & Lombrozo, T. (2010b). Explanation constrains learning, and prior knowledge constrains explanation. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

Williams, J. J., Lombrozo, T., & Rehder, B. (2010). Why does explaining help learning? Insight from an explanation impairment effect. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

Williams, J. J., & Lombrozo, T. (2009). Explaining promotes discovery: evidence from category learning. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1186-1191). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

Williams, J. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). Why are people bad at detecting randomness? Because it is hard. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 64-70). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

Griffiths, T. L., Lucas, C. G., Williams, J. J., Kalish, M. L. (2008). Modeling human function learning with Gaussian processes. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. (pdf)

Williams, J. J., & Mandel, D. R. (2007). Do evaluation frames improve the quality of conditional probability judgment? In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1653-1658), Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (pdf)