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Selected Publication

Stacy, S., Li, C., Zhao, M., Yun, Y., Zhao, Q., Kleiman-Weiner, M., & Gao, T. (2021). Modeling Communication to Coordinate Perspectives in Cooperation. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.
Jiang, K., Stacy, S., Wei, C., Chan, A., Rossano, F., Zhu, Y., & Gao, T. (2021). Individual vs. Joint Perception: a Pragmatic Model of Pointing as Communicative Smithian Helping. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.
Tang, N., Gong, S., Liao, Z., Xu, H., Zhou J., Shen, M., & Gao T. (2021). Jointly Perceiving Physics and Mind: Motion, Force and Intention. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.
L. Fan, S. Qiu, Z. Zheng, S.-C. Zhu, and Y. Zhu. "Learning Triadic Belief Dynamics in Nonverbal Communication from Videos." in Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2021).
Tang, N., Stacy, S., Zhao, M., Marquez, G., & Gao, T. (2020). Bootstrapping an Imagined We for cooperation. In B. Armstrong, S. Denison, S. Mack, & Y. Xu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.
Zhu, Y., Gao, T., Fan, L., Huang, S., Edmonds, M., Liu, H., Gao, F., Zhang, C., Qi, S., Wu, Y. N., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Zhu, S.-C. (2020). Dark, beyond deep: A paradigm shift to cognitive ai with humanlike common sense. Engineering, 6(3), 310–345.
Yuan, T., Liu, H., Fan, L., Zheng, Z., Gao, T., Zhu, Y., & Zhu, S.-C. (2020). Joint inference of states, robot knowledge, and human (False-)beliefs. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 5972–5978.
Gao, T., Baker, C. L., Tang, N., Xu, H., & Tenenbaum. J. B. (2019). The Cognitive Architecture of Perceived Animacy: Intention, Attention and Memory. Cognitive Science.
Xu, Tang, Zhou, Shen, & Gao. T. (2017). Seeing what through why: Probing the causal structure of hierarchical motion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 896-909.
Holtzen, S., Zhao, Y., Gao, T., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Zhu, S. C. (2016). Inferring human intent from video by sampling hierarchical plans. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE.
Van Buren, B., Gao, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). What are the underlying units of perceived animacy?: Chasing detection is intrinsically object-based. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24, 1604-1610.
Sun, Z., Huang, Y., Yu, W., Zhang, M., Shui, R., & Gao, T. (2015). How to break the configuration of moving objects? geometric invariance in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 41(5), 1247.
Lee, S. M., Gao, T., & McCarthy, G. (2014). Attributing intentions to random motion engages the posterior superior temporal sulcus. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 81-88.
Langdon, R., McMillan, J., & Gao, T. (2014). Detecting motion signals of intent in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 219, 700-702.
Gao, T., Scholl, B. J., & McCarthy, G. (2012). Dissociating the detection of intentionality from animacy in the right posterior superior temporal sulcus. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 14276-14280.
Gao, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2011). Chasing vs. Stalking: Interrupting the perception of animacy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 669-684.
Gao, T., Gao, Z., Li, J., Sun, Z., & Shen, M. (2011). The perceptual root of object-based storage: An interactive model of perception and visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 1803-1823.
Gao, T., & Scholl, B. J. (2010). Are objects required for object files?: Roles of segmentation and spatiotemporal continuity in computing object persistence. Visual Cognition, 18, 82-100.
Gao, T., McCarthy, G., & Scholl, B. J. (2010). The wolfpack effect: Perception of animacy irresistibly influences interactive behavior. Psychological Science, 21, 1845-1853.
Gao, T., Newman, G. E., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). The psychophysics of chasing: A case study in the perception of animacy. Cognitive Psychology, 59, 154-179.
Gao, T., Shen, M., Shui, R., & Gao, Z. (2007). Task set reconfiguration has no effect on the slope of feature search. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 345-352.
Shen, M., Zhou, J., Gao, T., Liang, J., & Shui, R. (2007). The perceived position of a moving object is not the result of position integration. Vision Research, 47, 3088-3099.