"Just in Time" World Modeling Supports Human Planning and Reasoning.

Samuel J. Cheyette

Tony Chen 0003 Samuel J. Cheyette Kelsey R. Allen Joshua B. Tenenbaum Kevin A. Smith 0001 "Just in Time" World Modeling Supports Human Planning and Reasoning. 2026 January abs/2601.14514 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.14514 db/journals/corr/corr2601.html#abs-2601-14514 streams/journals/corr

Stephen Ferrigno Samuel J. Cheyette Susan Carey Do Humans Use Push-Down Stacks When Learning or Producing Center-Embedded Sequences? 2025 49 Cogn. Sci. 9 https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70112 db/journals/cogsci/cogsci49.html#FerrignoCC25 streams/journals/cogsci

Samuel J. Cheyette Tony Chen 0003 Matthias Hofer 0002 Frederick Callaway Neil R. Bramley Joshua B. Tenenbaum Decompose, Deduce, and Dispose: A Memory-Limited Metacognitive Model of Human Problem Solving. 2025 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/517147vr conf/cogsci/2025 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2025.html#Cheyette00CBT25 Brian Leahy Vicente Vivanco Samuel J. Cheyette Kevin A. Smith 0001 Lucy J. White Roman Feiman Laura Schulz Joshua B. Tenenbaum Calculating probabilities from imagined possibilities: Limitations in 4-year-olds. 2025 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/41j038vf conf/cogsci/2025 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2025.html#LeahyVC0WFST25

Katherine M. Collins Cedegao E. Zhang Lionel Wong Mauricio Barba da Costa Graham Todd Adrian Weller Samuel J. Cheyette Thomas L. Griffiths 0001 Joshua B. Tenenbaum People use fast, flat goal-directed simulation to reason about novel problems. 2025 October abs/2510.11503 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.11503 db/journals/corr/corr2510.html#abs-2510-11503 streams/journals/corr

Tracey Mills Nicole Coates Alessandra Acadia Silva Stephen Ferrigno Laura Schulz Josh Tenenbaum 0001 Samuel J. Cheyette Connecting the dots: a comparative and developmental analysis of spatiotemporal pattern learning. 2024 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2c78839g conf/cogsci/2024 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2024.html#MillsCSFS0C24 Tony Chen 0003 Kelsey R. Allen Samuel J. Cheyette Josh Tenenbaum 0001 Kevin A. Smith 0001 "Just In Time" Representations for Mental Simulation in Intuitive Physics. 2023 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hq021qs conf/cogsci/2023 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2023.html#ChenAC0S23 Samuel J. Cheyette Frederick Callaway Neil R. Bramley Jonathan D. Nelson Josh Tenenbaum 0001 People seek easily interpretable information. 2023 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5sm2b484 conf/cogsci/2023 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2023.html#CheyetteCBN023 Thomas Ngo Samuel J. Cheyette Josh Tenenbaum 0001 Kevin A. Smith 0001 Strategy choice for physical reasoning is (partially) sensitive to cognitive costs. 2023 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7t69q5qr conf/cogsci/2023 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2023.html#NgoC0S23 Tracey Mills Josh Tenenbaum 0001 Samuel J. Cheyette Human spatiotemporal pattern learning as probabilistic program synthesis. 2023 NeurIPS http://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/hash/aa5c083f9d387c49514eb5c4dc2dc16b-Abstract-Conference.html conf/nips/2023 db/conf/nips/neurips2023.html#Mills0C23 Samuel J. Cheyette Shengyi Wu Steven T. Piantadosi The psychophysics of number arise from resource-limited spatial memory. 2021 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hk7s32c conf/cogsci/2021 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2021.html#CheyetteWP21 Samuel J. Cheyette Benjamin Pitt Steven T. Piantadosi Edward Gibson Math ability varies independently of number estimation in the Tsimané. 3431 2019 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9v46c36h conf/cogsci/2019 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2019.html#CheyettePPG19 Samuel J. Cheyette Steve Piantadosi Knowledge transfer in a probabilistic Language Of Thought. 2017 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xd7g5rm conf/cogsci/2017 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2017.html#CheyetteP17 Samuel J. Cheyette Emmanouil Konstantinidis Jason L. Harman Cleotilde Gonzalez Choice adaptation to increasing and decreasing event probabilities. 2016 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3767c9m9 conf/cogsci/2016 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2016.html#CheyetteKHG16 Kelsey R. Allen Neil BramleyNeil R. Bramley Frederick Callaway Susan Carey Tony Chen 0003 Nicole Coates Katie CollinsKatherine M. Collins Mauricio Barba da Costa Roman Feiman Stephen Ferrigno Edward Gibson Cleotilde Gonzalez Thomas L. Griffiths 0001 Jason L. Harman Matthias Hofer 0002 Emmanouil Konstantinidis Brian Leahy Tracey Mills Jonathan D. Nelson Thomas Ngo Steve PiantadosiSteven T. Piantadosi Benjamin Pitt Laura Schulz Alessandra Acadia Silva Kevin A. Smith 0001 Joshua B. TenenbaumJosh Tenenbaum 0001 Graham Todd Vicente Vivanco Adrian Weller Lucy J. White Lionel Wong Shengyi Wu Cedegao E. Zhang