| Play, curiosity, and cognition J Chu, LE Schulz Annual Review of Developmental Psychology 2, 2020 | 136 | 2020 |
| Lookit (Part 2): Assessing the viability of online developmental research, results from three case studies K Scott, J Chu, L Schulz Open mind 1 (1), 15-29, 2017 | 102 | 2017 |
| Do children's number words begin noisy? K Wagner, J Chu, D Barner Developmental science, e12752, 2018 | 67 | 2018 |
| Diagrams benefit symbolic problem‐solving J Chu, B Rittle‐Johnson, ER Fyfe British Journal of Educational Psychology 87 (2), 273-287, 2017 | 63 | 2017 |
| Not Playing by the Rules: Exploratory Play, Rational Action, and Efficient Search J Chu, LE Schulz Open Mind, 2023 | 37* | 2023 |
| In praise of folly: flexible goals and human cognition J Chu, JB Tenenbaum, LE Schulz Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 | 32 | 2024 |
| iCatcher+: Robust and automated annotation of infants’ and young children’s gaze behavior from videos collected in laboratory, field, and online studies Y Erel, KA Shannon, J Chu, K Scott, M Kline Struhl, P Cao, X Tan, P Hart, ... Advances in methods and practices in psychological science 6 (2 …, 2023 | 30 | 2023 |
| Counting to Infinity: Does learning the syntax of the count list predict knowledge that numbers are infinite? J Chu, P Cheung, RM Schneider, J Sullivan, D Barner Cognitive Science 44 (e12875), 2020 | 30 | 2020 |
| A one-year classroom-randomized trial of mental abacus instruction for first-and second-grade students D Barner, A Athanasopoulou, J Chu, M Lewis, E Marchand, R Schneider, ... Journal of Numerical Cognition 3 (3), 540-558, 2017 | 23 | 2017 |
| Because I want to: Valuing goals for their own sake J Chu, L Schulz Cognitive Science Society, 2022 | 12 | 2022 |
| Fun isn’t easy: Children choose more difficult options when “playing for fun” vs.“trying to win” J Chu, J Rule, M Goddu, V Pinter, ER Reagan, E Bonawitz, T Ullman PsyArXiv, 2025 | 10* | 2025 |
| Children selectively endorse speculative conjectures J Chu, LE Schulz Child Development 92 (6), e1342-e1360, 2021 | 9* | 2021 |
| What should i do now? goal-centric outlooks on learning, exploration, and communication C Colas, J Chu, G Molinaro, R Hawkins Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 46, 2024 | 4 | 2024 |
| Query Guided Visual Search J Chu, J Gauthier, R Levy, J Tenenbaum, L Schulz 41st Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1520, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
| The Task Task: Creative problem generation in humans and language models J Chu, J Hu, TD Ullman Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 46, 2024 | 2 | 2024 |
| Children learn non-exact number word meanings first K Wagner, J Chu, D Barner Manuscript in preparation, 2016 | 2 | 2016 |
| Generation and evaluation in the human invention process through the lens of game design KM Collins, G Todd, CE Zhang, A Weller, J Togelius, J Chu, L Wong, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.10914, 2025 | 1 | 2025 |
| What makes people think a puzzle is fun to solve? J Chu, K Zheng, JE Fan Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 47, 2025 | 1 | 2025 |
| Goal inference using reward-producing programs in a novel physics environment G Davidson, G Todd, CŽ Colas, J Chu, J Togelius, JB Tenenbaum, ... Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 47, 2025 | 1 | 2025 |
| Children’s play differs from both exploring and exploiting J Rule, J Chu, M Goddu, V Pinter, ER Reagan, E Bonawitz, T Ullman OSF, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
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