JF

Judith E. Fan

0000-0002-0097-3254

cs.CVcs.AIcs.HCcs.CLCognitive PsychologyDrawingCognitive DevelopmentImageryPattern Recognition, VisualSocial Cognition

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published · living versions

What makes an action sequence enjoyable to watch?

with Jean-Peïc Chou, Kristine Zheng, Junyi Chu, Maneesh Agrawala

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W_xrdhgb6hv1 · current

Preprints & journals

62 papers in the corpus · 2010–2026

Measuring U.S. and Kenyan children’s vocabularies using object, photograph, cartoon, and line drawing stimuli

Rebecca Zhu, Maya Martinez-Krams, Joab Ochieng Arieda et al.

0 citations

vdhfu_v12026PsyArXiv

Developmental changes in children’s production of line drawings in global contexts: Evidence from Kisumu, Kenya

Rebecca Zhu, Joab Ochieng Arieda, Tabitha Nduku et al.

0 citations

hpbf5_v22026PsyArXiv

What makes an action sequence enjoyable to watch?

Jean-Peic Chou, Kristine Zheng, Junyi Chu et al.

0 citations

2605.30864v12026arXiv

CORE: Contrastive Reflection Enables Rapid Improvements in Reasoning

Linas Nasvytis, Simon Jerome Han, Ben Prystawski et al.

0 citations

2605.28742v22026arXiv

Leveraging Speech to Identify Signatures of Insight and Transfer in Problem Solving

Linas Nasvytis, Judith E. Fan

0 citations

2605.12970v32026arXiv

Asking the right questions? What people learn about strangers in conversation

Erik Brockbank, Nora Dee, Misha O'Keeffe et al.

0 citations

rxq5u_v12026PsyArXiv

From chopped to cooked: Design and inference in physical environments

Justin Yang, Lionel Wong, Judith Fan et al.

0 citations

hd6px_v12026PsyArXiv

Artists' Drawing Strategies Serve to Overcome Visual Processing Limitations

Aaron Hertzmann, Judith Fan

2 citations

pqkxh_v22026PsyArXiv

Gesturing Toward Abstraction: Multimodal Convention Formation in Collaborative Physical Tasks

Kiyosu Maeda, William P. McCarthy, Ching-Yi Tsai et al.

1 citation

2602.08914v12026Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26), ACM, 2026

Drawings of THINGS: A large-scale drawing dataset of 1854 object concepts.

Mukherjee, Kushin, Huey, Holly, Stoinski, Laura M et al.

3 citations

416180732026Behavior research methods. 2026;58(2):57

Cross-Contextual Variability in Children's Early Understanding of Visual Media.

Zhu, Rebecca, Kilonzo, Tabitha Nduku, Zhu, Lily Zihui et al.

0 citations

413865232026Topics in cognitive science. 2026;18(2):e70034

Humans Select Subgoals That Balance Immediate and Future Cognitive Costs During Physical Assembly.

Binder, Felix J, Mattar, Marcelo G, J Kirsh, David et al.

2 citations

411904162025Cognitive science. 2025;49(11):e70135

Presenting Large Language Models as Companions Affects What Mental Capacities People Attribute to Them

Allison Chen, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Angel Franyutti et al.

3 citations

2510.18039v42025arXiv

Diagnosing Bottlenecks in Data Visualization Understanding by Vision-Language Models

Alexa R. Tartaglini, Satchel Grant, Daniel Wurgaft et al.

0 citations

2510.21740v12025arXiv

Understanding Human Limits in Pattern Recognition: A Computational Model of Sequential Reasoning in Rock, Paper, Scissors

Logan Cross, Erik Brockbank, Tobias Gerstenberg et al.

0 citations

2508.06503v12025arXiv

Human-centered evaluation of data visualization understanding in vision-language models

Arnav Verma, Kushin Mukherjee, Christopher Potts et al.

0 citations

2505.17202v22025Scientific Reports (2026)

Measuring and predicting variation in the difficulty of questions about data visualizations

Arnav Verma, Judith E. Fan

0 citations

2505.08031v12025arXiv

How do we get to know someone? Diagnostic questions for inferring personal traits

Erik Brockbank, Tobias Gerstenberg, Judith Fan et al.

1 citation

k6zme_v12025PsyArXiv

mrCAD: Multimodal Refinement of Computer-aided Designs

William P. McCarthy, Saujas Vaduguru, Karl D. D. Willis et al.

0 citations

2504.20294v12025arXiv

Evaluating convergence between two data visualization literacy assessments.

Brockbank, Erik, Verma, Arnav, Lloyd, Hannah et al.

5 citations

401882242025Cognitive research: principles and implications. 2025;10(1):15

Cross-contextual diversity in children’s early understanding of visual media

Rebecca Zhu, Tabitha Nduku, Lily Zihui Zhu et al.

0 citations

79xh5_v22025PsyArXiv

SketchAgent: Language-Driven Sequential Sketch Generation

Yael Vinker, Tamar Rott Shaham, Kristine Zheng et al.

11 citations

2411.17673v12024arXiv

Drawing as a means to characterize memory and cognition.

Bainbridge, Wilma A, Chamberlain, Rebecca, Wammes, Jeffrey et al.

10 citations

391921412025Memory & cognition. 2025;53(1):1-5

Without his cookies, he’s just a monster: A counterfactual simulation model of social explanation

Erik Brockbank, Justin Yang, Mishika Govil et al.

2 citations

3wzbk_v12024PsyArXiv

Using games to understand the mind.

Allen, Kelsey, Brändle, Franziska, Botvinick, Matthew et al.

104 citations

389070292024Nature human behaviour. 2024;8(6):1035-1043

Parallel developmental changes in children's production and recognition of line drawings of visual concepts.

Long, Bria, Fan, Judith E, Huey, Holly et al.

32 citations

383318502024Nature communications. 2024;15(1):1191

Open Vocabulary Semantic Scene Sketch Understanding

Ahmed Bourouis, Judith Ellen Fan, Yulia Gryaditskaya

9 citations

2312.12463v22023arXiv

Understanding Physical Dynamics with Counterfactual World Modeling

Rahul Venkatesh, Honglin Chen, Kevin Feigelis et al.

2 citations

2312.06721v32023arXiv

SEVA: Leveraging sketches to evaluate alignment between human and machine visual abstraction

Kushin Mukherjee, Holly Huey, Xuanchen Lu et al.

6 citations

2312.03035v12023arXiv

Consistency and Variation in Reasoning About Physical Assembly.

McCarthy, William P, Kirsh, David, Fan, Judith E

2 citations

381462042023Cognitive science. 2023;47(12):e13397

Creating ad hoc graphical representations of number.

Holt, Sebastian, Fan, Judith E, Barner, David

7 citations

379925122023Cognition. 2024;242:105665

Developmental changes in drawing production under different memory demands in a U.S. and Chinese sample.

Long, Bria, Wang, Ying, Christie, Stella et al.

6 citations

377686142023Developmental psychology. 2023;59(10):1784-1793

Learning Dense Correspondences between Photos and Sketches

Xuanchen Lu, Xiaolong Wang, Judith E Fan

3 citations

2307.12967v12023arXiv

Drawing as a versatile cognitive tool.

Fan, Judith E, Bainbridge, Wilma A, Chamberlain, Rebecca et al.

101 citations

392393122024Nature reviews psychology. 2023;2(9):556-568

Physion++: Evaluating Physical Scene Understanding that Requires Online Inference of Different Physical Properties

Hsiao-Yu Tung, Mingyu Ding, Zhenfang Chen et al.

8 citations

2306.15668v22023arXiv

Socially intelligent machines that learn from humans and help humans learn.

Gweon, Hyowon, Fan, Judith, Kim, Been

18 citations

372711772023Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences. 2023;381(2251):20220048

Measuring and Modeling Physical Intrinsic Motivation

Julio Martinez, Felix Binder, Haoliang Wang et al.

0 citations

2305.13452v32023arXiv

Visual resemblance and interaction history jointly constrain pictorial meaning.

Hawkins, Robert D, Sano, Megumi, Goodman, Noah D et al.

24 citations

370691602023Nature communications. 2023;14(1):2199

Visual explanations prioritize functional properties at the expense of visual fidelity.

Huey, Holly, Lu, Xuanchen, Walker, Caren M et al.

10 citations

368701472023Cognition. 2023;236:105414

How do people incorporate advice from artificial agents when making physical judgments?

Erik Brockbank, Haoliang Wang, Justin Yang et al.

1 citation

2205.11613v12022arXiv

Identifying concept libraries from language about object structure

Catherine Wong, William P. McCarthy, Gabriel Grand et al.

7 citations

2205.05666v12022arXiv

Visual resemblance and communicative context constrain the emergence of graphical conventions

Robert D. Hawkins, Megumi Sano, Noah D. Goodman et al.

0 citations

2109.13861v12021arXiv

Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions

William P. McCarthy, Robert D. Hawkins, Haoliang Wang et al.

12 citations

2107.00077v12021arXiv

Predicting children’s and adults’ preferences in physical interactions via physics simulation

George Kachergis, Samaher Radwan, Bria Long et al.

0 citations

xha3c_v12021PsyArXiv

Physion: Evaluating Physical Prediction from Vision in Humans and Machines

Daniel M. Bear, Elias Wang, Damian Mrowca et al.

31 citations

2106.08261v32021arXiv

Visual scoping operations for physical assembly

Felix J Binder, Marcelo M Mattar, David Kirsh et al.

2 citations

2106.05654v22021Proceedings for the 43nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2021

Visual communication of object concepts at different levels of abstraction

Justin Yang, Judith E. Fan

7 citations

2106.02775v12021arXiv

Measuring and predicting variation in the interestingness of physical structures

Cameron Holdaway, Daniel M. Bear, Samaher Radwan et al.

1 citation

hg7fv_v12021PsyArXiv

Explanatory drawings prioritize functional properties at the expense of visual fidelity

Holly Huey, Xuanchen Lu, Caren Walker et al.

1 citation

9hmzj_v12021PsyArXiv

Relating Visual Production and Recognition of Objects in Human Visual Cortex.

Fan, Judith E, Wammes, Jeffrey D, Gunn, Jordan B et al.

29 citations

318712782020The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2020;40(8):1710-1721

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