Chris L. Baker

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Chris L. Baker is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris L. Baker has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Chris L. Baker's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers), Language and cultural evolution (4 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 papers). Chris L. Baker is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers), Language and cultural evolution (4 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 papers). Chris L. Baker collaborates with scholars based in United States. Chris L. Baker's co-authors include Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Rebecca Saxe, Julian Jara‐Ettinger, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz, Eberhart Zrenner, Alison Gopnik, Noah D. Goodman, Robert F. Hess and Vikash K. Mansinghka and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Neurophysiology and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Chris L. Baker

19 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Action understanding as inverse planning 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2017 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Action understanding as inverse planning
    2009 524 citations Chris L. Baker, Rebecca Saxe et al. Cognition profile →
  2. Rational quantitative attribution of beliefs, desires and percepts in human mentalizing
    2017 265 citations Chris L. Baker, Julian Jara‐Ettinger et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chris L. Baker United States 12 422 420 406 365 219 19 1.2k
Tomer Ullman United States 15 473 1.1× 306 0.7× 329 0.8× 256 0.7× 151 0.7× 59 1.0k
Iris van Rooij Netherlands 25 319 0.8× 454 1.1× 712 1.8× 424 1.2× 112 0.5× 77 1.7k
Aaron Sloman United Kingdom 24 106 0.3× 851 2.0× 568 1.4× 376 1.0× 121 0.6× 121 1.8k
Michael Matessa United States 14 206 0.5× 442 1.1× 500 1.2× 393 1.1× 44 0.2× 53 1.4k
Joseph L. Austerweil United States 17 159 0.4× 324 0.8× 250 0.6× 83 0.2× 75 0.3× 48 740
Kai-Min Chang United States 10 102 0.2× 318 0.8× 742 1.8× 165 0.5× 98 0.4× 20 1.2k
Adrien Baranès France 9 193 0.5× 292 0.7× 335 0.8× 124 0.3× 62 0.3× 12 895
Stephen C. McKinley United States 9 792 1.9× 426 1.0× 444 1.1× 154 0.4× 36 0.2× 10 1.2k
Jessica B. Hamrick United States 11 138 0.3× 236 0.6× 287 0.7× 125 0.3× 35 0.2× 18 765
Leendert van Maanen Netherlands 26 299 0.7× 289 0.7× 1.4k 3.4× 123 0.3× 50 0.2× 82 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris L. Baker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris L. Baker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chris L. Baker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chris L. Baker based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chris L. Baker. Chris L. Baker is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Čáp, Michal, et al.. (2021). Planning on a (Risk) Budget: Safe Non-Conservative Planning in Probabilistic Dynamic Environments. 10257–10263. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Yifei, et al.. (2019). Learning Trajectory Prediction with Continuous Inverse Optimal Control via Langevin Sampling of Energy-Based Models.. arXiv (Cornell University). 6 indexed citations
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Gao, Tao, et al.. (2019). The Cognitive Architecture of Perceived Animacy: Intention, Attention, and Memory. Cognitive Science. 43(8). e12775–e12775. 14 indexed citations
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Wu, Yang, Chris L. Baker, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, & Laura Schulz. (2017). Rational Inference of Beliefs and Desires From Emotional Expressions. Cognitive Science. 42(3). 850–884. 24 indexed citations
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Baker, Chris L., Julian Jara‐Ettinger, Rebecca Saxe, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2017). Rational quantitative attribution of beliefs, desires and percepts in human mentalizing. Nature Human Behaviour. 1(4). 265 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gershman, Samuel J., Tobias Gerstenberg, Chris L. Baker, & Fiery Cushman. (2016). Plans, Habits, and Theory of Mind. PLoS ONE. 11(9). e0162246–e0162246. 25 indexed citations
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Krafft, P. M., Chris L. Baker, Alex Pentland, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2016). Modeling Human Ad Hoc Coordination. arXiv (Cornell University). 3740–3746. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Yang, Chris L. Baker, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, & Laura Schulz. (2014). Joint inferences of belief and desire from facial expressions. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 3 indexed citations
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Baker, Chris L., et al.. (2014). Inferring the intentional states of autonomous virtual agents. Cognition. 130(3). 360–379. 23 indexed citations
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Richardson, Hilary, Chris L. Baker, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, & Rebecca Saxe. (2012). The Development of Joint Belief-Desire Inferences. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 5 indexed citations
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Jara‐Ettinger, Julian, Chris L. Baker, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2012). Learning What is Where from Social Observations. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 17 indexed citations
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Baker, Chris L., Rebecca Saxe, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2011). Bayesian Theory of Mind: Modeling Joint Belief-Desire Attribution. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 120 indexed citations
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Baker, Chris L., Rebecca Saxe, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2009). Action understanding as inverse planning. Cognition. 113(3). 329–349. 524 indexed citations breakdown →
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Baker, Chris L., Josh Tenenbaum, & Rebecca Saxe. (2007). Goal Inference as Inverse Planning. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 55 indexed citations
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Shon, Aaron P., et al.. (2006). Probabilistic Gaze Imitation and Saliency Learning in a Robotic Head. 2865–2870. 17 indexed citations
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Goodman, Noah D., Chris L. Baker, Vikash K. Mansinghka, et al.. (2005). Intuitive Theories of Mind: A Rational Approach to False Belief. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 28(28). 58 indexed citations
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Shon, Aaron P., David B. Grimes, Chris L. Baker, & Rajesh P. N. Rao. (2004). A Probabilistic Framework for Model-Based Imitation Learning. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 11 indexed citations
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Baker, Chris L., Aaron P. Shon, & Rajesh P. N. Rao. (2004). Learning temporal clusters with synaptic facilitation and lateral inhibition. Neurocomputing. 65-66. 877–884. 1 indexed citations
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Hess, Robert F., et al.. (1986). Differences between electroretinograms of cat and primate. Journal of Neurophysiology. 56(3). 747–768. 32 indexed citations

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