Invited presentations
Vasil, N. & Ritchie, K. (June, 2023). How generic language informs our thinking about causal invariance and social change. Invited presentation at the Symposium on Social Movements and Social Change, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Pittsburgh PA.
Vasil, N. (June, 2023). Contextual restriction and structural generics. Invited presentation at the Intuitive Theories of Social Structures and Social change workshop at Princeton University, NJ.
Vasil, N., & Ritchie, K. (February, 2023). A unifying account of generic language. Invited presentation at the Social Identities and Cognition in the Desert Workshop, University of California Irvine.
Vasil, N. (April, 2021 – postponed due to a campus-wide closure due to a shooting threat on 4/21/21). “It works when it works”: Generalizations about unstable causal and categorical relationships. Invited presentation at the Causality Program at Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley.
Vasil, N. (December, 2021). Generic language and structural thinking. Invited presentation at the Group for Empirical Approaches to Morality and Society, CUNY Graduate Center.
Vasilyeva, N. (March, 2021). Social structures and social constraints on behavior. Invited presentation at Stanford Graduate School of Business Colloquium Series, Stanford University.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (December, 2020). Thinking structurally about the social and moral world. Invited symposium on Moral Learning at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Vasilyeva, N. (October, 2020). The role of constraints in explanation of behavior. Invited presentation at the Behavior, Evolution and Culture talk series at University of California Los Angeles.
Vasilyeva, N. (January, 2020). Reasoning about unstable causal relationships across domains and development. Invited presentation at the Experimental Philosophy Society session at the Annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association. - Cancelled.
Vasilyeva, N. (December, 2019). Causal reasoning: the role of stability. Invited presentation at the Causality Conference, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University.
Vasilyeva, N., & Ayala, S. (June, 2019). The rational need for explanation. Presentation at the Curiosity, Explanation and Exploration Workshop, Princeton University.
Vasilyeva, N. (February, 2019). The role of causal reasoning in language representation and processing. Invited presentation at the Cognition and Language Workshop, Stanford University.
Vasilyeva, N. (February, 2019). Structural explanation: Seeking stability in a complex world. Invited presentation at the Mind and Moral Psychology talk series. University of Michigan.
Vasilyeva, N., & Ayala, S. (October, 2018). The rational need for explanation: Role of agents’ values and goals. Invited presentation at the Mind, Technology, & Society (MTS) Talk Series. University of California, Merced.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (March, 2018). Reasoning about unstable causal and explanatory relationships across development: The case of structural explanation. Invited presentation at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Retreat, Sonoma, CA.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (May, 2017). Structural thinking and generics. Invited presentation at the Workshop on Generics, Stanford University.
Ayala, S., & Vasilyeva, N. (April, 2013). Extended sex: Against the internalist approach to sex categories. Invited presentation at the Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT, Boston.
Ayala, S., & Vasilyeva, N. (May, 2012). Extended cognition and sex categories: Implications of merger. Invited presentation at the Philosophy Department, University of Granada (Spain).
Ayala, S., & Vasilyeva, N. (April, 2012). Extending and inventing sex categories. Invited presentation at the Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT, Boston.
Conference presentations
Vasil, N., Lombrozo, T., & Srinivasan, M. (March, 2023). Can structural explanations mitigate essentialist construals of both novel and familiar groups? Paper accepted for presentation at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development.
Vasil, N., Murphy, M., Katteri, S., Lombrozo, T., & Gopnik, A. (January, 2023). “It depends”: How children reason about stable and unstable causes. Paper accepted for presentation at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.
Vasil, N., & Ritchie, K. (August, 2022). Structural and essentialist generics. Paper accepted for presentation at the Social Ontology / Collective Intentionality conference.
Ritchie, K. & Vasil, N., (July, 2022). One recipe for two flavors of generics: How contextual restrictions and stability give rise to essentialist and structural generics. Paper presented at the joint meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Vasil, N., Smith, K., Barr, K., Kiper, J., Stich, S., Machery, E., & Barrett, H. C. (March-April, 2022). Evaluating information and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for epistemic vigilance. Paper presented at the 113th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Vasil, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (February, 2022). The development of structural reasoning about social groups. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Vasil, N., Smith, K., Barr, K., Kiper, J., Stich, S., Machery, E., & Barrett, H. C. (July, 2021). Evaluating information and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for epistemic vigilance. Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Smith, K., Vasil, N., Barr, K., Kiper, J., Stich, S., Machery, E., & Barrett, H. C. (June-July, 2021). Evaluating information and misinformation duringthe COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for epistemic vigilance. Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Princeton, NJ.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (April, 2021). When children do not essentialize social groups: Comparing internalist and structural construals of generics. Paper accepted for presentation at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo T. (April, 2021). Beyond situational explanations: Structural thinking as a unique type of externalist thinking. Paper accepted for presentation at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (June, 2020). When generic language does not promote essentialism. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [online]
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (January, 2020). When generic language does not promote essentialism. Paper accepted for presentation at the 10th annual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.
Vasilyeva, N., Srinivasan, M., & Ellwood-Lowe, M. (November, 2019). Children’s and adults’ use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world. Paper accepted for presentation at the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (October, 2019). Do structural (vs. Internalist) construals of social categories support normative judgments? Paper accepted for presentation at the Cognitive Development Society meeting, Louisville, KY.
Vasilyeva, N., Srinivasan, M., & Ellwood-Lowe, M. (October, 2019). Learning about the social world through pragmatic inference. Paper accepted for presentation at the Cognitive Development Society meeting, Louisville, KY.
Vasilyeva, N., Ellwood-Lowe, M., Delaney S., Srinivasan, M., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (October, 2019). Structural explanation promotes rectification of inequality in a resource allocation task. Data blitz accepted for presentation at the Cognitive Development Society pre-conference: The development of political thought. Louisville, KY.
Vasilyeva, N. & Lombrozo, T. (July, 2019). Structural thinking about social categories: Evidence from formal explanations, generics, and generalization. Paper presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, QB.
Vasilyeva, N. & Lombrozo, T. (July, 2019). Structural and internalist construal of formal explanations, generics, and generalization. Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Vasilyeva, N., Srinivasan, M., Ellwood-Lowe, M., Delaney, S., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (May, 2019). Resource allocation decisions: Structural explanation promotes rectification of inequality. Paper presented at the Berkeley-UCSC-Stanford Developmental talks.
Vasilyeva, N., Srinivasan, M., Ellwood-Lowe, M., Delaney, S., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (April, 2019). Structural explanations promote resource allocations that compensate for inequality. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development. Baltimore, MD.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (July, 2017). The development of structural thinking about social categories. Paper presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (June-July 2017). The development of structural thought. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Baltimore, MD.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (May, 2017). How children reason about structural constraints. Berkeley-Stanford-Santa Cruz Developmental Talk series, Stanford University.
Vasilyeva, N., Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (April 2017). Development of coordination between explanation and generalization. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development.
Vasilyeva*, N., Blanchard*, T.J., & Lombrozo, T. (August, 2016). Stable causal relations are better causal relations. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA. (*equal contributions)
Vasilyeva, N., Coley, J.D., Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (August, 2016). Development of coordination between explanation and generalization. Paper presented at the International conference on Thinking, Providence, RI.
Vasilyeva, N. & Lombrozo, T. (2015). Different kinds of explanations in context. Paper presented at an invited symposium on the Process of Explanation at Psychonomics Society’s 56th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Vasilyeva, N., Wilkenfeld, D.A., & Lombrozo, T. (2015). Understanding, knowledge, explanation, and causation. Paper presented at the Midpoint Conference of the Varieties of Understanding: New Perspectives from Psychology, Philosophy and Theology project, New York, NY.
Vasilyeva, N., Wilkenfeld, D.A., & Lombrozo, T. (2015). Goals affect the perceived quality of explanations. Paper presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Durham, NC.
Ayala, S., & Vasilyeva, N. (July, 2015). Explaining injustice in speech. Paper presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Vasilyeva, N. & Coley, J.D. (July, 2013). Explanation as a source of property effects in inductive reasoning. Paper presented at the 7th London Reasoning Workshop, London, UK.
Vasilyeva, N. & Coley, J.D. (July, 2013). Psychological mechanism of constrained knowledge recruitment in inductive inference. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology meeting, Granada, Spain.
Vasilyeva, N. (March, 2013). Explanations and beliefs. Paper presented at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, USA.
Vasilyeva, N. (February, 2012). Teaching cognitive psychology to college students: Where naive and scientific explanations of behavior meet. Paper presented at the Language and Cognition Area Meeting, Psychology Department, Northeastern University.
Ayala, S. & Vasilyeva, N. (December, 2010). Social networks in the Brain-Body-Environment equation: Contribution of environmental computation to cognitive processes. Paper presented at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Boston, USA.
Vasilyeva, N. & Coley, J.D. (June, 2009). Effects of development and experience on inductive reasoning about nature. Paper presented at the International Conference on Biological Understanding and Theory of Mind, Reims, France.
Vasilyeva, N. & Coley, J.D. (August, 2008). Representations of human individuals and kinds. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Thinking, Venice, Italy.
Coley, J.C., Vasilyeva, N., & Muratore, T.M. (August, 2008). Selective use of taxonomic and ecological knowledge in open-ended category induction. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Thinking, Venice, Italy.
Vitkin, A.Z., Vasilyeva, N., Coley, J.D. (August, 2007). Experience and the development of flexible inductive reasoning in biology. Paper presented at the annual meeting of British Psychological Society 2007 Developmental Section Conference, Plymouth, UK.
Vasilyeva, N. & Coley, J.D. (July, 2007). Dissociations in feature importance of individual people and social groups. Research project presented at the Culture and Cognition course at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
Coley, J.D. Vitkin, A.Z., Vasilyeva, N., & Amato, K. (July, 2007). Experience increases flexible ecological reasoning. Paper presented at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Human Development Association, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Vasilyeva, N. (2003). Language of advertising. Paper presented at the conference “Linguistic Aspects of Public Relations”, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Vasilyeva, N. (2001). Violation of pragmatic principles in advertising. Paper presented at the conference “Cross-Cultural Communication is Our Profession”, Krasnoyarsk State University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (First place award in the “Language and Speech Theory” section).
Posters
Vasilyeva, N., Ellwood-Lowe, M., Delaney, S., Srinivasan, M., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (November, 2018). Structural explanation promotes rectification of inequality in a resource allocation task. Poster accepted for presentation at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. [cancelled]
Vasilyeva, N., Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (July, 2018). When and how children use explanations to guide generalizations. Poster presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI.
Vasilyeva, N., & Lombrozo, T. (July, 2018). The surprising consequences of engaging in contrastive explanation. Poster presented at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology 44th Annual Meeting. Ann Arbor, MI.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (March, 2018). Development of structural thinking as a case of reasoning about unstable causal relationships. Poster presented at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Retreat, Sonoma, CA.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (February, 2018). Structural thinking about social categories. Poster presented at the Global Convergence on the Science of Learning. NSF headquarters, Alexandria, VA.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (October, 2017). The development of structural thinking about social categories. Poster presented at the Bias in Context: Psychological and Structural Explanations of Injustice. Salt Lake City, UT.
Vasilyeva*, N., Blanchard*, T., & Lombrozo, T. (June, 2016). Stable causal relationships are better causal relationships. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. (*Equal contributions)
Vasilyeva, N. (June, 2016). Structural explanation: structural factors as moderators and constraints on probabilistic outcomes. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.D. (July, 2014). Context effects in explanation evaluation. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Quebec City, Canada.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.D. (August, 2013t). Evaluating two mechanisms of flexible Induction: Selective memory retrieval and evidence explanation. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany.
Joly-Lowdermilk, C., Vasilyeva, N., Daoust, S., Pierotti, A., Tolhurst, D.A., Coley, J.D. (March, 2013). Jumping to conclusions through the hoop of explanation: Psychological mechanism of flexible inductive reasoning. Poster presented at the annual Research and Scholarship Expo at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.C. (March, 2012). The mechanism and time course of selective cue recruitment in flexible probabilistic reasoning. Poster presented at the annual Research and Scholarship Expo at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.C. (July, 2011). Inductive selectivity and integration of information from multiple sources. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA.
Vasilyeva, N. (June, 2011). Ignoring information in hypothesis generation. Poster presented at the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, organized by Max Planck institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.C. (May, 2011). Inductive selectivity and knowledge integration. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
Vasilyeva, N. (May, 2011). Knowledge integration in generation of inductive hypotheses. Poster presented at the Annual Northeastern University Corporation Meeting, Boston, MA.
Vasilyeva, N., Bzura, R.E., Lee, B.B., Robey, A.M., Silveira, S.L., Coley, J.D. (April, 2011). Using prior knowledge in inductive inference: Property effects and integration mechanisms. Poster presented at the annual Research and Scholarship Expo at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. (winner of the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award).
Vasilyeva, N., Coley, J.C., & Muratore, T.M. (July-August, 2009). Interaction of taxonomic and contextual knowledge in categorization of cross-classified Instances. Poster presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Coley, J.D., Muratore, T.M., & Vasilyeva, N. (April, 2009). Folk biological induction: Environmental and developmental differences in the use of taxonomic and ecological knowledge. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.D. (March, 2008). Feature importance in representations of human individuals and kinds. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology (EPC08), Freemantle, Australia.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.D. (March, 2008). Different representations for individuals and kinds. Poster presented at the annual Research and Scholarship Expo at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. (winner of the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award).
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.D. (February, 2008). Representations of human individuals and kinds. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, Massachusetts.
Caldwell-Harris, C., Vasilyeva, N., Smashnaya, S., Staroselsky, M. (2008). Emotionality factors and their role in first and second language acquisition among Russian-English bilinguals. Poster presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD), Wurzburg, Germany.
Vitkin, A.Z., Vasilyeva, N., Baker, A.K., Coley, J.D. (March-April, 2007). Biological reasoning in preschool children: the roles of knowledge and experience. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, Massachusetts.
Vasil, N. (June, 2023). Contextual restriction and structural generics. Invited presentation at the Intuitive Theories of Social Structures and Social change workshop at Princeton University, NJ.
Vasil, N., & Ritchie, K. (February, 2023). A unifying account of generic language. Invited presentation at the Social Identities and Cognition in the Desert Workshop, University of California Irvine.
Vasil, N. (April, 2021 – postponed due to a campus-wide closure due to a shooting threat on 4/21/21). “It works when it works”: Generalizations about unstable causal and categorical relationships. Invited presentation at the Causality Program at Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley.
Vasil, N. (December, 2021). Generic language and structural thinking. Invited presentation at the Group for Empirical Approaches to Morality and Society, CUNY Graduate Center.
Vasilyeva, N. (March, 2021). Social structures and social constraints on behavior. Invited presentation at Stanford Graduate School of Business Colloquium Series, Stanford University.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (December, 2020). Thinking structurally about the social and moral world. Invited symposium on Moral Learning at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Vasilyeva, N. (October, 2020). The role of constraints in explanation of behavior. Invited presentation at the Behavior, Evolution and Culture talk series at University of California Los Angeles.
Vasilyeva, N. (January, 2020). Reasoning about unstable causal relationships across domains and development. Invited presentation at the Experimental Philosophy Society session at the Annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association. - Cancelled.
Vasilyeva, N. (December, 2019). Causal reasoning: the role of stability. Invited presentation at the Causality Conference, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University.
Vasilyeva, N., & Ayala, S. (June, 2019). The rational need for explanation. Presentation at the Curiosity, Explanation and Exploration Workshop, Princeton University.
Vasilyeva, N. (February, 2019). The role of causal reasoning in language representation and processing. Invited presentation at the Cognition and Language Workshop, Stanford University.
Vasilyeva, N. (February, 2019). Structural explanation: Seeking stability in a complex world. Invited presentation at the Mind and Moral Psychology talk series. University of Michigan.
Vasilyeva, N., & Ayala, S. (October, 2018). The rational need for explanation: Role of agents’ values and goals. Invited presentation at the Mind, Technology, & Society (MTS) Talk Series. University of California, Merced.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (March, 2018). Reasoning about unstable causal and explanatory relationships across development: The case of structural explanation. Invited presentation at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Retreat, Sonoma, CA.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (May, 2017). Structural thinking and generics. Invited presentation at the Workshop on Generics, Stanford University.
Ayala, S., & Vasilyeva, N. (April, 2013). Extended sex: Against the internalist approach to sex categories. Invited presentation at the Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT, Boston.
Ayala, S., & Vasilyeva, N. (May, 2012). Extended cognition and sex categories: Implications of merger. Invited presentation at the Philosophy Department, University of Granada (Spain).
Ayala, S., & Vasilyeva, N. (April, 2012). Extending and inventing sex categories. Invited presentation at the Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, MIT, Boston.
Conference presentations
Vasil, N., Lombrozo, T., & Srinivasan, M. (March, 2023). Can structural explanations mitigate essentialist construals of both novel and familiar groups? Paper accepted for presentation at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development.
Vasil, N., Murphy, M., Katteri, S., Lombrozo, T., & Gopnik, A. (January, 2023). “It depends”: How children reason about stable and unstable causes. Paper accepted for presentation at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.
Vasil, N., & Ritchie, K. (August, 2022). Structural and essentialist generics. Paper accepted for presentation at the Social Ontology / Collective Intentionality conference.
Ritchie, K. & Vasil, N., (July, 2022). One recipe for two flavors of generics: How contextual restrictions and stability give rise to essentialist and structural generics. Paper presented at the joint meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Vasil, N., Smith, K., Barr, K., Kiper, J., Stich, S., Machery, E., & Barrett, H. C. (March-April, 2022). Evaluating information and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for epistemic vigilance. Paper presented at the 113th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Vasil, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (February, 2022). The development of structural reasoning about social groups. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Vasil, N., Smith, K., Barr, K., Kiper, J., Stich, S., Machery, E., & Barrett, H. C. (July, 2021). Evaluating information and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for epistemic vigilance. Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Smith, K., Vasil, N., Barr, K., Kiper, J., Stich, S., Machery, E., & Barrett, H. C. (June-July, 2021). Evaluating information and misinformation duringthe COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for epistemic vigilance. Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Princeton, NJ.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (April, 2021). When children do not essentialize social groups: Comparing internalist and structural construals of generics. Paper accepted for presentation at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo T. (April, 2021). Beyond situational explanations: Structural thinking as a unique type of externalist thinking. Paper accepted for presentation at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (June, 2020). When generic language does not promote essentialism. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [online]
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (January, 2020). When generic language does not promote essentialism. Paper accepted for presentation at the 10th annual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.
Vasilyeva, N., Srinivasan, M., & Ellwood-Lowe, M. (November, 2019). Children’s and adults’ use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world. Paper accepted for presentation at the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (October, 2019). Do structural (vs. Internalist) construals of social categories support normative judgments? Paper accepted for presentation at the Cognitive Development Society meeting, Louisville, KY.
Vasilyeva, N., Srinivasan, M., & Ellwood-Lowe, M. (October, 2019). Learning about the social world through pragmatic inference. Paper accepted for presentation at the Cognitive Development Society meeting, Louisville, KY.
Vasilyeva, N., Ellwood-Lowe, M., Delaney S., Srinivasan, M., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (October, 2019). Structural explanation promotes rectification of inequality in a resource allocation task. Data blitz accepted for presentation at the Cognitive Development Society pre-conference: The development of political thought. Louisville, KY.
Vasilyeva, N. & Lombrozo, T. (July, 2019). Structural thinking about social categories: Evidence from formal explanations, generics, and generalization. Paper presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, QB.
Vasilyeva, N. & Lombrozo, T. (July, 2019). Structural and internalist construal of formal explanations, generics, and generalization. Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Vasilyeva, N., Srinivasan, M., Ellwood-Lowe, M., Delaney, S., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (May, 2019). Resource allocation decisions: Structural explanation promotes rectification of inequality. Paper presented at the Berkeley-UCSC-Stanford Developmental talks.
Vasilyeva, N., Srinivasan, M., Ellwood-Lowe, M., Delaney, S., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (April, 2019). Structural explanations promote resource allocations that compensate for inequality. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development. Baltimore, MD.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (July, 2017). The development of structural thinking about social categories. Paper presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (June-July 2017). The development of structural thought. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Baltimore, MD.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (May, 2017). How children reason about structural constraints. Berkeley-Stanford-Santa Cruz Developmental Talk series, Stanford University.
Vasilyeva, N., Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (April 2017). Development of coordination between explanation and generalization. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development.
Vasilyeva*, N., Blanchard*, T.J., & Lombrozo, T. (August, 2016). Stable causal relations are better causal relations. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA. (*equal contributions)
Vasilyeva, N., Coley, J.D., Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (August, 2016). Development of coordination between explanation and generalization. Paper presented at the International conference on Thinking, Providence, RI.
Vasilyeva, N. & Lombrozo, T. (2015). Different kinds of explanations in context. Paper presented at an invited symposium on the Process of Explanation at Psychonomics Society’s 56th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Vasilyeva, N., Wilkenfeld, D.A., & Lombrozo, T. (2015). Understanding, knowledge, explanation, and causation. Paper presented at the Midpoint Conference of the Varieties of Understanding: New Perspectives from Psychology, Philosophy and Theology project, New York, NY.
Vasilyeva, N., Wilkenfeld, D.A., & Lombrozo, T. (2015). Goals affect the perceived quality of explanations. Paper presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Durham, NC.
Ayala, S., & Vasilyeva, N. (July, 2015). Explaining injustice in speech. Paper presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Vasilyeva, N. & Coley, J.D. (July, 2013). Explanation as a source of property effects in inductive reasoning. Paper presented at the 7th London Reasoning Workshop, London, UK.
Vasilyeva, N. & Coley, J.D. (July, 2013). Psychological mechanism of constrained knowledge recruitment in inductive inference. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology meeting, Granada, Spain.
Vasilyeva, N. (March, 2013). Explanations and beliefs. Paper presented at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, USA.
Vasilyeva, N. (February, 2012). Teaching cognitive psychology to college students: Where naive and scientific explanations of behavior meet. Paper presented at the Language and Cognition Area Meeting, Psychology Department, Northeastern University.
Ayala, S. & Vasilyeva, N. (December, 2010). Social networks in the Brain-Body-Environment equation: Contribution of environmental computation to cognitive processes. Paper presented at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Boston, USA.
Vasilyeva, N. & Coley, J.D. (June, 2009). Effects of development and experience on inductive reasoning about nature. Paper presented at the International Conference on Biological Understanding and Theory of Mind, Reims, France.
Vasilyeva, N. & Coley, J.D. (August, 2008). Representations of human individuals and kinds. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Thinking, Venice, Italy.
Coley, J.C., Vasilyeva, N., & Muratore, T.M. (August, 2008). Selective use of taxonomic and ecological knowledge in open-ended category induction. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Thinking, Venice, Italy.
Vitkin, A.Z., Vasilyeva, N., Coley, J.D. (August, 2007). Experience and the development of flexible inductive reasoning in biology. Paper presented at the annual meeting of British Psychological Society 2007 Developmental Section Conference, Plymouth, UK.
Vasilyeva, N. & Coley, J.D. (July, 2007). Dissociations in feature importance of individual people and social groups. Research project presented at the Culture and Cognition course at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
Coley, J.D. Vitkin, A.Z., Vasilyeva, N., & Amato, K. (July, 2007). Experience increases flexible ecological reasoning. Paper presented at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Human Development Association, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Vasilyeva, N. (2003). Language of advertising. Paper presented at the conference “Linguistic Aspects of Public Relations”, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Vasilyeva, N. (2001). Violation of pragmatic principles in advertising. Paper presented at the conference “Cross-Cultural Communication is Our Profession”, Krasnoyarsk State University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (First place award in the “Language and Speech Theory” section).
Posters
Vasilyeva, N., Ellwood-Lowe, M., Delaney, S., Srinivasan, M., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (November, 2018). Structural explanation promotes rectification of inequality in a resource allocation task. Poster accepted for presentation at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. [cancelled]
Vasilyeva, N., Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (July, 2018). When and how children use explanations to guide generalizations. Poster presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI.
Vasilyeva, N., & Lombrozo, T. (July, 2018). The surprising consequences of engaging in contrastive explanation. Poster presented at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology 44th Annual Meeting. Ann Arbor, MI.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (March, 2018). Development of structural thinking as a case of reasoning about unstable causal relationships. Poster presented at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Retreat, Sonoma, CA.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (February, 2018). Structural thinking about social categories. Poster presented at the Global Convergence on the Science of Learning. NSF headquarters, Alexandria, VA.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (October, 2017). The development of structural thinking about social categories. Poster presented at the Bias in Context: Psychological and Structural Explanations of Injustice. Salt Lake City, UT.
Vasilyeva*, N., Blanchard*, T., & Lombrozo, T. (June, 2016). Stable causal relationships are better causal relationships. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. (*Equal contributions)
Vasilyeva, N. (June, 2016). Structural explanation: structural factors as moderators and constraints on probabilistic outcomes. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.D. (July, 2014). Context effects in explanation evaluation. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Quebec City, Canada.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.D. (August, 2013t). Evaluating two mechanisms of flexible Induction: Selective memory retrieval and evidence explanation. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany.
Joly-Lowdermilk, C., Vasilyeva, N., Daoust, S., Pierotti, A., Tolhurst, D.A., Coley, J.D. (March, 2013). Jumping to conclusions through the hoop of explanation: Psychological mechanism of flexible inductive reasoning. Poster presented at the annual Research and Scholarship Expo at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.C. (March, 2012). The mechanism and time course of selective cue recruitment in flexible probabilistic reasoning. Poster presented at the annual Research and Scholarship Expo at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.C. (July, 2011). Inductive selectivity and integration of information from multiple sources. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA.
Vasilyeva, N. (June, 2011). Ignoring information in hypothesis generation. Poster presented at the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, organized by Max Planck institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.C. (May, 2011). Inductive selectivity and knowledge integration. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
Vasilyeva, N. (May, 2011). Knowledge integration in generation of inductive hypotheses. Poster presented at the Annual Northeastern University Corporation Meeting, Boston, MA.
Vasilyeva, N., Bzura, R.E., Lee, B.B., Robey, A.M., Silveira, S.L., Coley, J.D. (April, 2011). Using prior knowledge in inductive inference: Property effects and integration mechanisms. Poster presented at the annual Research and Scholarship Expo at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. (winner of the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award).
Vasilyeva, N., Coley, J.C., & Muratore, T.M. (July-August, 2009). Interaction of taxonomic and contextual knowledge in categorization of cross-classified Instances. Poster presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Coley, J.D., Muratore, T.M., & Vasilyeva, N. (April, 2009). Folk biological induction: Environmental and developmental differences in the use of taxonomic and ecological knowledge. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.D. (March, 2008). Feature importance in representations of human individuals and kinds. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology (EPC08), Freemantle, Australia.
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.D. (March, 2008). Different representations for individuals and kinds. Poster presented at the annual Research and Scholarship Expo at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. (winner of the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award).
Vasilyeva, N., & Coley, J.D. (February, 2008). Representations of human individuals and kinds. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, Massachusetts.
Caldwell-Harris, C., Vasilyeva, N., Smashnaya, S., Staroselsky, M. (2008). Emotionality factors and their role in first and second language acquisition among Russian-English bilinguals. Poster presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD), Wurzburg, Germany.
Vitkin, A.Z., Vasilyeva, N., Baker, A.K., Coley, J.D. (March-April, 2007). Biological reasoning in preschool children: the roles of knowledge and experience. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, Massachusetts.