Publication - Visual Intelligence Lab

Publication

Gao, T., & Tang, N. (in press). A ladder of agency in perceived animacy. In S. P. Johnson (Ed.), Handbook of perceptual development. Oxford University Press.

Tang, N., Gong, S., Zhao, M., Zhou, J., Shen, M., & Gao, T. (in press). Joint commitment in human cooperative hunting through an “Imagined We”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Jiang, K., Jiang, B., Sadaghdar, A., Limb, R., & Gao, T. (2025). A relevance model of human sparse communication in cooperation. Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

Li, Z., Gong, S., Tang, N., Zhang, J., Zhou, J., Shen, M., & Gao, T. (2025). Territorial Gestalt in the strategy of conflicts. Proceedings of the 47rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Stacy, S., Gong, S., Parab, A., Zhao, M., Jiang, K., & Gao, T. (2024). A Bayesian theory of mind approach to modeling cooperation and communication. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, 16, e1631.

Zhai, S., Cheng, S., Moskowitz, N., Shen, M., & Gao, T. (2024). The development of commitment: Attention for intention. Child Development, 95, 7-15.

Cheng, S., Zhao, M., Tang, N., Zhao, Y., Zhou, J., Shen, M., & Gao T. (2023). Intention beyond desire: Spontaneous intentional commitment regulates conflicting desires. Cognition, 238, 105513.

Tang, N., Gong, S., Zhou, J., Shen, M., & Gao, T. (2023). Generative vision as common sense: Testing analysis-by-synthesis on Mondrian- style image. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 2713.

Zhao, M., Tang, N., Dahmani, A., Perry, R., Federico, R., Zhu, Y., & Gao, T. (2022). Sharing rewards undermines coordinated hunting. Journal of Computational Biology, 29, 1022-1030.

Stacy, S., Parab, A., Kleiman-Weiner, M., & Gao, T. (2022). Overloaded communication as paternalistic helping. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Stacy, S., Yun, Y., Potter, M., Moskowitz, N., & Gao, T. (2022). No such thing as the average listener: Belief-driven versus action-driven strategies in signaling. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Jiang, K., Stacy, S., Dahmani, A. L., Jiang, B., Rossano, F., Zhu, Y., & Gao, T. (2022). What is the point? a theory of mind model of relevance. In Proceedings of the 44th annual meeting of the 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 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Tang, N., Stacy, S., Zhao, M., Marquez, G., & Gao, T. (2020). Bootstrapping an imagined we for cooperation. In Proceedings of the 42ed annual meeting of the cognitive science society.

Langdon, R., Boulton, K., Connaughton, E., & Gao, T. (2020). Perceiving and attributing intentionality in schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 25, 269-280.

Zhu, Y., Gao, T., Fan, L., Huang, S., Edmondsa, M., Liua, H., Gao, F., Zhang, C., Qia, S., Wu, Y., Tenenbaum, J.B., Zhu. S.C. (2020). Dark, beyond deep: A paradigm shift to cognitive AI with humanlike common sense. Engineering, 6, 310-345.

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, H., Tang, N., Zhou, J., , Shen, M., & 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.