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Journal Articles

    Zhao, J., & Osherson, D. (in press). Category-based updating. Thinking & Reasoning. PDF
    Zhao, J., Al-Aidroos, N., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2013). Attention is spontaneously biased toward regularities. Psychological Science, 24, 667-677. PDF
    Zhao, J., Crupi, V., Tentori, K., Fitelson, B., & Osherson, D. (2012). Updating: Learning versus supposing. Cognition, 124, 373-378. PDF
    Zhao, J., Ngo, N., McKendrick, R., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2011). Mutual interference between statistical summary perception and statistical learning. Psychological Science, 22, 1212-1219. PDF In the news: Press release from APS, ScienceDaily
    Zhao, J., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2011). Incidental encoding of numerosity in visual long-term memory. Visual Cognition, 19, 928-955. PDF
    Zhao, J., & Osherson, D. (2010). Updating beliefs in light of uncertain evidence: Descriptive assessment of Jeffrey’s rule. Thinking & Reasoning, 16, 288-307. PDF
    Zhao, J., Shah, A. K., & Osherson, D. (2009). On the provenance of judgments of conditional probability. Cognition, 113, 26-36. PDF
    Zhao, J., & Costello, F. J. (2008). Computational modelling of switching behaviour in repeated gambles. Artificial Intelligence Review, 27, 209-222. PDF
    Song, S., Zhou, H., Fu, X., & Zhao, J. (2005). Affective assessment on criminal suspects in preliminary hearing. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 38, 1-6.
    Xia, F., Wang, H., Fu, X., & Zhao, J. (2005). An XML-based implementation of multimodal affective annotation. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 3784, 535-541. PDF

Other Manuscripts (available upon request)

    Zhao, J., Hahn, U., & Osherson, D. (under review). Perception and identification of random events.
    Zhao, J., Goldfarb, L., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (in prep). Mutual interference between numerical processing and statistical learning.
    Zhao, J., Karbowicz, D., & Osherson, D. (in revision). Learning stimulus relationships increases control in the flanker task.
    Hall, C. C., Zhao, J., & Shafir, E.* (in revision). Self-affirmation among the poor: Cognitive and behavioral implications. (*equal author contribution) In the news: The Economist
    Mani, A., Mullainathan, S., Shafir, E., & Zhao, J.* (under review). Poverty impedes cognitive function. (*equal author contribution) In the news: New York Times, TIME Magazine, Haaretz
    White, J. M., Zhao, J., Lee, R., Turk-Browne, N. B., & Osherson, D. (in revision). Selectivity for abstract visual structure in ventral temporal cortex.

Conference Proceedings

    Zhao, J., Crupi, V., Tentori, K., Fitelson, B., & Osherson, D. (2012). Updating: Learning versus supposing. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1233-1237). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF
    Zhao, J., & Osherson, D. (2011). Detecting deviations from randomness. L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1019-1024). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF
    Zhao, J., & Osherson, D. (2010). Descriptive assessment of Jeffrey's rule. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2530 - 2535). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF
    Zhao, J., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2010). The perception of number from long-term memory. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1240-1245). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF
    Zhao, J., Shah, A. K., & Osherson, D. (2009). On the provenance of judgments of conditional probability. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 298 - 302). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF

Paper and Poster Presentations

    Zhao, J., Goldfarb, L., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2013, May). When numbers and statistics collide: Competition between numerosity perception and statistical learning. Talk presented at the Vision Sciences Society 13th Annual Meeting. Naples, FL.
    Zhao, J., & Shafir, E. (2012, November). The consequences of poverty’s distractions. Talk presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Minneapolis, MN.
    Seidl, K. N., Zhao, J., Kastner, S., & Osherson, D. (2012, October). Mapping object recognition in the brain. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience. New Orleans, LA.
    Zhao, J., Crupi, V., Tentori, K., Fitelsen, B., & Osherson, D. (2012, August). Updating: Learning versus supposing. Talk presented at the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan.
    Zhao, J., Al-Aidroos, N., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2012, May). Attention is drawn spontaneously to regularities during statistical learning. Talk presented at the Vision Sciences Society 12th Annual Meeting. Naples, FL.
    Hall, C., Zhao, J., & Shafir, E. (2012, January). Self affirmation and low-income decision making. Symposium at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
    Zhao, J., & Shafir, E. (2011, November). Mental accounting under scarcity: Perceived costs in low-income consumption. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Seattle, WA.
    Zhao, J., & Osherson, D. (2011, July). Detecting deviations from randomness. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA.
    Zhao, J., Ngo, N., McKendrick, R. & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2011, May). Statistical summary perception interferes with statistical learning and vice versa. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society 11th Annual Meeting. Naples, FL.
    Zhao, J., & Shafir, E. (2010, November). On the psychology of scarcity: Thinking about financial problems affects cognitive performance. Talk presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, St. Louis, MO.
    White, J. M., Zhao, J., Lee, R., Turk-Browne, N. B., & Osherson, D. (2010, November). Visual cortex detects the amount of structure in novel abstract images. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
    Zhao, J., & Osherson, D. (2010, August). Descriptive assessment of Jeffrey's rule. Talk presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, OR.
    Zhao, J., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2010, August). The perception of number from long-term memory. Talk presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, OR.
    White, J. M., Zhao, J., Lee, R., Turk-Browne, N. B., & Osherson, D. (2010, June). Visual cortex detects the amount of structure in novel abstract images. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain.
    Zhao, J., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2009, November). Continuous vs. binary: On the compensatory strategies of judgments. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, MA.
    Zhao, J., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2009, August). Beyond binary: Limitations of the binary choice paradigm for studying judgment heuristics. Talk presented at the biennial meeting for Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making, Rovereto, Italy.
    Zhao, J., Shah, A. K., & Osherson, D. (2009, July). On the provenance of judgments of conditional probability. Talk presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
    Zhao, J., & Costello, F. J. (2008, July). Computational modelling of switching behaviour in repeated gambles. Poster presented at the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics, Berlin, Germany.
    Zhao, J., & Costello, F.(2007, May). Computational modelling of switching behaviour in repeated gambles. Talk presented at the 18th Conference in Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science, Dublin, Ireland.
    Zhao, J. (2006, April). The effects of induced positive and negative emotions on risky decision making. Talk presented at the 28th Annual Psychological Society of Ireland Student Congress, Maynooth, Ireland.
    Xia, F., Wang, H., Fu, X., & Zhao, J. (2005, August). An XML-based implementation of multimodal affective annotation. Talk presented at the 1st Affective Computing Intelligent Interaction Conference, Beijing, China.