Publications

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• Markant, D., Rogha, M., Karduni, A., Wesslen, R., and Dou, W. (2023). When do data visualizations persuade? The impact of prior attitudes on learning from visualizations of correlations. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023).
• Markant, D. (2022). Modeling the effect of chained study in transitive inference. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Wesslen, R., Karduni, A., Markant, D., and Dou, W. (in press). Effects of uncertainty visualizations on myopic loss aversion and equity premium puzzle in retirement investment decisions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
• Markant, D. (2021). Chained study and the discovery of relational structure. Memory and Cognition. doi: 10.3758/s13421-021-01201-1 [data repository]
• Karduni, A., Markant, D., Wesslen, R., & Dou, W. (2021). A Bayesian cognition approach for belief updating of correlation judgment through uncertainty visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
• Jones, A., Markant, D., Pachur, T., Gopnik, A., and Ruggeri, A. (2021). How is the hypothesis space represented? Evidence from young children’s active search and predictions in a multiple-cue inference task. Developmental Psychology 57(7), 1080–1093. doi: 10.1037/dev0001201
• Markant, D. (2020). Active transitive inference: When learner control facilitates integrative encoding. Cognition 200. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104188
• Markant, D. (2020). Effects of “chained” study on spontaneous relational discovery. In Denison, S., Mack, M., Xu, Yang., and Armstrong, B., editors, Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
  • Watch the talk related to this paper here.
• Fantasia, V., Markant, D., Valeri, G., Perry, N., & Ruggeri, A. (2020). Memory enhancements from active control of learning in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism.
• Markant, D. (2019). Navigating the ‘chain of command’: Enhanced integrative encoding through active control of study. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Ruggeri, A., Markant, D., Gureckis, T. M., Bretzke, M., & Xu, F. (2019). Memory enhancements from active control of learning emerge across development. Cognition 186, 82–94. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.010
• Markant, D. (2018). Effects of biased hypothesis generation on self-directed category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
• Adams, K. A., Kachergis, G., & Markant, D. (2017). “Children’s familiarity preference in self-directed study improves recognition memory.” In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Markant, D., Ruggeri, A., Gureckis, T. M., and Xu, F. (2016). “Enhanced memory as a common effect of active learning.” Mind, Brain, and Education.
• Markant, D. (2016). “The impact of biased hypothesis generation on self-directed learning.” In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., and Trueswell, J. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [experiment code]
• Ruggeri, A., Markant, D., Gureckis, T. M., and Xu, F. (2016). Active control of study leads to improved recognition memory in children. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., and Trueswell, J. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Markant, D., Settles, B., and Gureckis, T.M. (2016). “Self-directed learning favors local, rather than global, uncertainty.” Cognitive Science 40(1), 100—120. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12220
• Gureckis, T.M., Martin, J., McDonnell, J.V., Rich, A.S., Markant, D., Coenen, A., Hamrick, J., Chan, P. (2015). “psiTurk: An open-source framework for conducting replicable behavioral experiments online.” Behavior Research Methods.
• Markant, D., Pleskac, T.J., Diederich, A., Pachur, T., and Hertwig, R. (2015). “Modeling choice and search in decisions from experience: A sequential sampling approach.” In Dale., R., Jennings, C., Maglio, P., Matlock, T., Noelle, D., Warlaumont, A., Yoshimi, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [bibtex]
• Markant, D., Dubrow, S., Davachi, L., and Gureckis, T.M. (2014). “Deconstructing the effect of self-directed study on episodic memory.” Memory & Cognition 42(8), 1211—1224. doi: 10.3758/s13421-014-0435-9 [bibtex]
  • Read a blog post summarizing this research here.
• Markant, D. and Gureckis, T.M. (2014). “A preference for the unpredictable over the informative during self-directed learning.” in P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, and B. Scassellati (Eds.) Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [bibtex]
• Markant, D. and Gureckis, T.M. (2014). “Is it better to select or receive? Learning via active and passive hypothesis testing.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 143(1), 94—122. [bibtex]
• Gureckis, T.M. and Markant, D. (2012). “Self-directed learning: A cognitive and computational perspective.” Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(5), 464—481. [bibtex]
• Markant, D. and Gureckis, T.M. (2012). “One piece at a time: Learning complex rules through self-directed sampling.” in Miyake, N. and Peebles, D. and Cooper, R.P. (Eds), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 725—730). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [bibtex]
• Markant, D. and Gureckis, T.M. (2012). “Does the utility of information influence sampling behavior?” in Miyake, N. and Peebles, D. and Cooper, R.P. (Eds), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 719—724). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [bibtex]
• Markant, D. and Gureckis, T.M. (2010) “Category learning through active sampling” in Ohlsson, S. and Catrambone, R. (Eds), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 248—253). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [bibtex]
• Gureckis, T.M. and Markant, D. (2009) “Active learning strategies in a spatial concept learning game” in Taatgen, N., van Rijn, H., Schomaker, L. and Nerbonne, J. (Eds), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3145—3150). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [bibtex]

Preprints

• Markant, D., Phillips, N., Kareev, Y., Avrahami, J., & Hertwig, R. (2018). To act fast or to bide time? Adaptive exploration under competitive pressure.