Publications

* indicates equal contribution.

Binder, F. Thinking Through Action: Prediction, Planning, and Metacognition in Problem-Solving. Doctoral dissertation, University of California, San Diego. Dissertation

Binder, F.*, Chua, J.*, Korbak, T., Sleight, H., Hughes, J., Long, R., Perez, E., Turpin, M., & Evans, O. Looking Inward: Language Models Can Learn About Themselves by Introspection. ICLR 2025. Code & Paper, ArXiv
Wang, H., Jedoui, K., Venkatesh, R., Binder, F., Tenenbaum, J., Fan, J., Yamins, D., & Smith, K. Probabilistic Simulation Supports Generalizable Intuitive Physics. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Venkatesh, R., Chen, H., Feigelis, K., Bear, D. M., Jedoui, K., Kotar, K., Binder, F., Lee, W., Liu, S., Smith, K. A., Fan, J. E., & Yamins, D. L. K. Understanding Physical Dynamics with Counterfactual World Modeling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06721.
Binder, F., Mattar, M., Kirsh, D., & Fan, J. Humans Choose Visual Subgoals to Reduce Cognitive Cost. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Martinez, J., Binder, F., Wang, H., Haber, N., Fan, J., & Yamins, D. L. K. Measuring and Modeling Physical Intrinsic Motivation. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Wang, H.*, Jedoui, K.*, Venkatesh, R.*, Binder, F.*, Yamins, D., Fan, J., & Smith, K. Modeling and evaluating how the brain makes physical predictions. Proceedings of the Society for Neuroscience.

Bear, D.*, Wang, E.*, Mrowca, D.*, Binder, F.*, Tung, H., Pramod, R. T., Holdaway, C., Tao, S., Smith, K., Sun, F., Fei-Fei, L., Kanwisher, N., Tenenbaum, J., Yamins, D.** & Fan, J.** Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines. NeurIPS 2021 (Datasets & Benchmarks track). Code & Paper
Binder, F., Mattar, M., Kirsh, D., & Fan, J. Visual scoping operations for physical assembly. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Code & Paper
Binder, F.*, Jones, C. R.*, Kaufman, R. A., & Lin, N. T. Cognitive cost and information gain trade off in a large-scale number guessing game. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Code & Paper