| The communicative function of ambiguity in language ST Piantadosi, H Tily, E Gibson Cognition 122 (3), 280-291, 2012 | 808 | 2012 |
| Zipf’s word frequency law in natural language: A critical review and future directions ST Piantadosi Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 21 (5), 1112-1130, 2014 | 701 | 2014 |
| Word lengths are optimized for efficient communication ST Piantadosi, H Tily, E Gibson Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (9), 3526-3529, 2011 | 687 | 2011 |
| The Goldilocks effect: Human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex C Kidd, ST Piantadosi, RN Aslin PloS one 7 (5), e36399, 2012 | 618 | 2012 |
| Rational integration of noisy evidence and prior semantic expectations in sentence interpretation E Gibson, L Bergen, ST Piantadosi Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (20), 8051-8056, 2013 | 374 | 2013 |
| How efficiency shapes human language E Gibson, R Futrell, SP Piantadosi, I Dautriche, K Mahowald, L Bergen, ... Trends in cognitive sciences 23 (5), 389-407, 2019 | 347 | 2019 |
| Info/information theory: Speakers choose shorter words in predictive contexts K Mahowald, E Fedorenko, ST Piantadosi, E Gibson Cognition 126 (2), 313-318, 2013 | 252 | 2013 |
| Using Mechanical Turk to obtain and analyze English acceptability judgments E Gibson, S Piantadosi, K Fedorenko Language and Linguistics Compass 5 (8), 509-524, 2011 | 225 | 2011 |
| Color naming across languages reflects color use E Gibson, R Futrell, J Jara-Ettinger, K Mahowald, L Bergen, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (40), 10785-10790, 2017 | 222 | 2017 |
| A noisy-channel account of crosslinguistic word-order variation E Gibson, ST Piantadosi, K Brink, L Bergen, E Lim, R Saxe Psychological science 24 (7), 1079-1088, 2013 | 221 | 2013 |
| Bootstrapping in a language of thought: A formal model of numerical concept learning ST Piantadosi, JB Tenenbaum, ND Goodman Cognition 123 (2), 199-217, 2012 | 219 | 2012 |
| The Goldilocks effect in infant auditory attention C Kidd, ST Piantadosi, RN Aslin Child development 85 (5), 1795-1804, 2014 | 186 | 2014 |
| Beyond the imitation game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models A Srivastava, A Rastogi, A Rao, AAM Shoeb, A Abid, A Fisch, AR Brown, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.04615, 2022 | 175 | 2022 |
| The logical primitives of thought: Empirical foundations for compositional cognitive models. ST Piantadosi, JB Tenenbaum, ND Goodman Psychological review 123 (4), 392, 2016 | 135 | 2016 |
| Children's learning of number words in an indigenous farming‐foraging group ST Piantadosi, J Jara‐Ettinger, E Gibson Developmental science 17 (4), 553-563, 2014 | 95 | 2014 |
| Quantitative methods in syntax/semantics research: A response to Sprouse and Almeida (2013) E Gibson, ST Piantadosi, E Fedorenko Language and Cognitive processes 28 (3), 229-240, 2013 | 82 | 2013 |
| Refer efficiently: Use less informative expressions for more predictable meanings H Tily, S Piantadosi Proceedings of the workshop on the production of referring expressions …, 2009 | 74 | 2009 |
| Wordform similarity increases with semantic similarity: An analysis of 100 languages I Dautriche, K Mahowald, E Gibson, ST Piantadosi Cognitive science 41 (8), 2149-2169, 2017 | 73 | 2017 |
| Universal and uniquely human factors in spontaneous number perception S Ferrigno, J Jara-Ettinger, ST Piantadosi, JF Cantlon Nature communications 8 (1), 13968, 2017 | 67 | 2017 |
| Composition is the core driver of the language-selective network F Mollica, M Siegelman, E Diachek, ST Piantadosi, Z Mineroff, R Futrell, ... Neurobiology of Language 1 (1), 104-134, 2020 | 64 | 2020 |
Edward (Ted) GibsonProfessor of Cognitive Science, MITVerified email at mit.edu
