Publications

Journals and AI Conference Proceedings

Berke, M., Sterling, B. G., Tenenbaum, A. L., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (in prep). Quantitative Reconstruction of Other People's Cognitive Processes as Bayesian Inverse Reasoning.

Berke*, M., Horschler*, D., Royka, A., Santos, L., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (under review). What Primates Know About Other Minds and When They Use It: A Computational Approach to Comparative Theory of Mind. preprint

Krapf, J., Yong, P., Berke, M., Bohm-Starke, N., Bornstein, J., Chrysilla, E., Dempsey, T., Falsetta, M., Foster, D., Goldstein, S., Iadarola, M., Kellogg-Spadt, S., Mannes, A., Vogel, J., & Goldstein, A. (in press). Key Outcomes of the Vulvodynia Therapeutic Research Summit: Identifying Targets for Further Research Study in the Treatment of Provoked Vestibulodynia. Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Rubio-Fernandez, P., Berke, M., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2024). Tracking Minds in Communication. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661324003127 pdf

Berke, M., Azerbayev, Z., Belledonne, M., Tavares, Z., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2024). MetaCOG: A Hierarchical Probabilistic Model for Learning Meta-Cognitive Visual Representations. The 40th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v244/berke24a.html pdf appendix

Berke, M., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2024). Core Knowledge, Visual Illusions, and the Discovery of the Self. Commentary on Spelke. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. link

Berke, M., Walter-Terrill, R., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Scholl, B. J. (2022). Flexible Goals Require that Inflexible Perceptual Systems Produce Veridical Representations: Implications for Realism as Revealed by Evolutionary Simulations. Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13195 pdf

Selected Conference Proceedings

Berke*, M., Sterling*, B., Chandra, K., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2025). People Use Theory of Mind to Craft Lies Exploiting Audience Desires Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. link

Zhang, R., Berke, M., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2025). Six-Year-Olds Use an Intuitive Theory of Attention to Infer What Others See, Whom to Trust, and What They Want Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. link

Shachnai*, R., Kleiman-Weiner*, M., Berke, M., & Leonard, J. A. (2024). When Bayesians Take Over: A Computational Model of Parental Intervention Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. link

Zhi, T. Y., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Berke, M. (2024). Reasoning About Knowledge in Lie Production. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. link

Berke, M., Sterling, B. G., Tenenbaum, A. L., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2024). No Signatures of First-Person Biases in Theory of Mind Judgments About Thinking. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. link

Berke, M., Tenenbaum, A. L., Sterling, B. G., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2023). Thinking about Thinking as Rational Computation. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. link

Berke, M., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2022). Integrating Experience into Bayesian Theory of Mind. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. link

Berke, M., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2021). Thinking About Thinking Through Inverse Reasoning. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. link

Berke, M., Field, D. J., & Cleland, T. A. (2017). The Sparse Structure of Natural Chemical Environments. Proceedings from the International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose (ISOEN). link