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Associate Professor Micah Goldwater

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micah.goldwater@sydney.edu.au

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A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building

The University of Sydney

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Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre

Member of the Brain and Mind Centre

Member of the Charles Perkins Centre

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Biographical details

Dr. Goldwater received his BA in Linguistics from the University of Rochester in 2003, completed his PhD in Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin in 2009, and then held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University until joining the University of Sydney in 2013.

Research interests

Dr. Goldwater's research investigates the nature, acquisition, and use of knowledge. This work focuses on how children and adults can look past the superficial to recognize when disparate situations, problems, or ideas share deep structural commonalities. He examines both basic processes of cognition and development, their underlying neural mechanisms, and develops applications to improve education and public health. To achieve these broad research goals, Dr. Goldwater investigates a number of interrelated topics, including:

-How knowledge changes with learning and development

-Improving students' ability to transfer what they have learned to novel contexts.

-How the prefrontal cortex supports complex cognition, and how brain-behaviour associations change throughout child development

-How to increase the use of scientific evidence in health decision-making

-The interplay of knowledge and executive function in fostering learning, reasoning, and decision-making.

-Differences between how experts and novices think.

-How concepts are represented, and how the meanings of words are understood.

-The reciprocity between how children direct their own learning, and how they learn from others.

-How children acquire their first language.

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Using storytelling to teach young children about systemic racism	Hayfa BAKOUR
Design of interfaces to overcome junk science news	Waheeb Yaqub FAIZ MOHAMMAD
“How deep does the brainrot go?”: characterising the impact of digital technology on human memory	Cynthia FENG
Exploring the cognitive processes that makes failure productive for science learning.	Robyn RAHL
Navigating the dip: Using adolescents’ goals and self-schemata to enhance academic motivation	Samiksha SHRIVASTAVA
How do experts and novices differ in the diagnosis of ADHD and Autism? Applying models of cognitive reasoning in diagnosis to investigate the development of diagnostic accuracy	Adam WRIGHT

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Book Chapters

Davis, T., Goldwater, M., Gaylord, N., Worthy, D., Otto, R., Glass, B. (2013). The Cognitive Psychology of Human-Bat-Interactions: Implications for Ecological Policy and Zoonotic Disease Transmission. In Gwynne A. Geyer (Eds.), Bats: Phylogeny and Evolutionary Insights, Conservation Strategies and Role in Disease Transmission, (pp. 39-56). Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Goldwater, M., Runner, J. (2011). On the Representational Nature of Representational Noun Phrases. In Jeffery T. Runner (Eds.), Syntax and Semantics: Experiments at the Interfaces, (pp. 219-250). Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

Journals

Lim, M., Zammit, C., Lewis, E., Ee, N., Maiden, G., Goldwater, M., Kimonis, E., Kenning, G., Rockwood, K., Fitzgerald, A., et al (2024). A 10-week intergenerational program bringing together community-living older adults and preschool children (INTERACTION): a pilot feasibility non-randomised clinical trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 10(1). [More Information]
Rett, A., Amemiya, J., Hwang, B., Goldwater, M., Walker, C. (2024). Children’s Recognition of Causal System Categories Across Superficially Distinct Events. Developmental Psychology. [More Information]
Yaqub, W., Kay, J., Goldwater, M. (2024). Foundations for Enabling People to Recognise Misinformation in Social Media News based on Retracted Science. ACM Proceedings on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1). [More Information]
Chow, J., Goldwater, M., Colagiuri, B., Livesey, E. (2024). Instruction on the Scientific Method Provides (Some) Protection Against Illusions of Causality. Open Mind, 8, 639-665. [More Information]
Hashmi, F., Burger, O., Goldwater, M., Johnson, T., Legare, C. (2023). Integrating Human-Centered Design and Social Science Research to Improve Service-Delivery and Empower Community Health Workers: Lessons from Project RISE. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 9(4), 489-517. [More Information]
Dekel, S., Burns, B., Goldwater, M. (2023). Leaping across the mental canyon: higher-order long-distance analogical retrieval. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 35(8), 856-875. [More Information]
Kessler, F., Proske, A., Urbas, L., Goldwater, M., Krieger, F., Greiff, S., Narciss, S. (2023). Promoting Complex Problem Solving by Introducing Schema-Governed Categories of Key Causal Models. Behavioral Sciences, 13(9). [More Information]
Rawlings, B., Erut, A., Fong, F., Ghelardi, S., Goldwater, M., Ingram, G., Messer, E., Kingsford, J., Lew-Levy, S., Mendez, K., et al (2023). Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies. Developmental Science. [More Information]
Resnick, I., Newcombe, N., Goldwater, M. (2023). Reasoning About Fraction and Decimal Magnitudes, Reasoning Proportionally, and Mathematics Achievement in Australia and the United States. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 9(1), 222-239. [More Information]
Ni, B., Burns, B., Mak, K., Lah, S., Silva, D., Goldwater, M., Kleitman, S. (2023). To kill or not to kill: A systematic literature review of high-stakes moral decision-making measures and their psychometric properties. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1063607. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Hilton, C., Davis, T. (2022). Developing an Educational Neuroscience of Category Learning. Mind, Brain, and Education, 16(2), 167-182. [More Information]
Hilton, C., Goldwater, M., Hancock, D., Clemson, M., Huang, A., Denyer, G. (2022). Scalable Science Education via Online Cooperative Questioning. CBE Life Science Education, 21(1). [More Information]
Lacour, M., Hughes, B., Goldwater, M., Ireland, M., Worthy, D., Van Allen, J., Van-Hoosier, G., Davis, T. (2022). The Double Bind of Communicating About Zoonotic Origins: Describing Exotic Animal Sources of COVID-19 Increases Both Healthy and Discriminatory Avoidance Intentions. Risk Analysis, 42(3), 506-521. [More Information]
Boulton, K., Coghill, D., Silove, N., Pellicano, E., Whitehouse, A., Bellgrove, M., Rinehart, N., Lah, S., Redoblado Hodge, M., Badawi, N., Burns, J., Nanan, R., Novak, I., Goldwater, M., Munro, N., Togher, L., Nassar, N., Guastella, A., et al (2021). A national harmonised data collection network for neurodevelopmental disorders: A transdiagnostic assessment protocol for neurodevelopment, mental health, functioning and well-being. JCPP Advances, 1(4), e12048. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Gentner, D., LaDue, N., Libarkin, J. (2021). Analogy Generation in Science Experts and Novices. Cognitive Science, 45(9), e13036. [More Information]
Kenning, G., Ee, N., Xu, Y., Luu, B., Ward, S., Goldwater, M., Lewis, E., Radford, K., Anstey, K., Lautenschlager, N., et al (2021). Intergenerational practice in the community—what does the community think? Social Sciences, 10(10). [More Information]
Peters, R., Ee, N., Ward, S., Kenning, G., Radford, K., Goldwater, M., Dodge, H., Lewis, E., Xu, Y., Kudrna, G., Hamilton, M., et al (2021). Intergenerational Programmes bringing together community dwelling non-familial older adults and children: A Systematic Review. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 94, 104356. [More Information]
Hilton, C., Goldwater, M. (2021). Linguistic syncopation: Meter-syntax alignment affects sentence comprehension and sensorimotor synchronization. Cognition, 217, 1-12. [More Information]
Parker, L., Byrne, J., Goldwater, M., Enfield, N. (2021). Misinformation: An empirical study with scientists and communicators during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ Open Science, 5(1), e100188-1-e100188-11. [More Information]
Chow, J., Colagiuri, B., Rottman, B., Goldwater, M., Livesey, E. (2021). Pseudoscientific health beliefs and the perceived frequency of causal relationships. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(21), 11196. [More Information]
Davis, T., Goldwater, M. (2021). Using model-based neuroimaging to adjudicate structured and continuous representational accounts in same-different categorization and beyond. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 37, 103-108. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Gershman, S., Moul, C., Ludowici, C., Burton, A., Killer, B., Kuhnert, R., Ridgway, K. (2020). Children's understanding of habitual behaviour. Developmental Science, 23(5), e12951. [More Information]
Davis, T., Lacour, M., Goldwater, M., Hughes, B., Ireland, M., Worthy, D., Van Allen, J. (2020). Communicating about diseases that originate in animals: Lessons from the psychology of inductive reasoning. Behavioral Science & Policy, 6(2), 1-11. [More Information]
Don, H., Goldwater, M., Greenaway, J., Hutchings, R., Livesey, E. (2020). Relational Rule Discovery in Complex Discrimination Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(10), 1807-1827. [More Information]
Jacobson, M., Goldwater, M., Markauskaite, L., Lai, P., Kapur, M., Roberts, G., Hilton, C. (2020). Schema abstraction with productive failure and analogical comparison: Learning designs for far across domain transfer. Learning and Instruction, 65, 1-15. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Jamrozik, A. (2019). Can a relational mindset boost analogical retrieval? Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4(1), 1-16. [More Information]
Ambridge, B., Goldwater, M., Lieven, E. (2018). Analogical structure mapping and the formation of abstract constructions: A novel construction learning study. Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 24, 177-196. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Don, H., Krusche, M., Livesey, E. (2018). Relational Discovery in Category Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(1), 1-35. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Brunt, R., Echols, C. (2018). Speech Facilitates the Categorization of Motions in 9-Month-Old Infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1-13. [More Information]
Davis, T., Goldwater, M., Ireland, M., Gaylord, N., Van Allen, J. (2017). Can you catch Ebola from a stork bite? Inductive reasoning influences generalization of perceived zoonosis risk. PloS One, 12(11), 1-21. [More Information]
Davis, T., Goldwater, M., Giron, J. (2017). From Concrete Examples to Abstract Relations: The Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Integrates Novel Examples into Relational Categories. Cerebral Cortex, 27(4), 2652-2670. [More Information]
Goldwater, M. (2017). Grammatical Constructions as Relational Categories. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9(3), 776-799. [More Information]
Livesey, E., Goldwater, M., Colagiuri, B. (2017). Will human-like machines make human-like mistakes? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 1-5. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Bainbridge, R., Murphy, G. (2016). Learning of role-governed and thematic categories. Acta Psychologica, 164, 112-126. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Schalk, L. (2016). Relational Categories as a Bridge Between Cognitive and Educational Research. Psychological Bulletin, 142(7), 729-757. [More Information]
Don, H., Goldwater, M., Otto, R., Livesey, E. (2016). Rule abstraction, model-based choice, and cognitive reflection. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23(5), 1615-1623. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Markman, A., Trujillo, L., Schnyer, D. (2015). Licensing Novel Role-Governed Categories: An ERP Analysis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 1-9. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Gentner, D. (2015). On the acquisition of abstract knowledge: Structural alignment and explication in learning causal system categories. Cognition, 137, 137-153. [More Information]
Smith, L., Ping, R., Matlen, B., Goldwater, M., Gentner, D., Levine, S. (2014). Mechanisms of spatial learning: Teaching children geometric categories. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 8684, 325-337. [More Information]
Rottman, B., Gentner, D., Goldwater, M. (2012). Causal systems categories: Differences in novice and expert categorization of causal phenomena. Cognitive Science, 36(5), 912-932. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Markman, A. (2011). Categorizing entities by common role. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 18(2), 406-413. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Tomlinson, M., Love, B., Echols, C. (2011). Structural priming as structure-mapping: Young children use analogies from previous utterances to guide sentence production. Cognitive Science, 35(1), 156-170. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Markman, A., Stilwell, H. (2011). The empirical case for role-governed categories. Cognition, 118(3), 359-376. [More Information]
Rein, J., Goldwater, M., Markman, A. (2010). What is typical about the typicality effect in category-based induction? Memory & Cognition, 38(3), 377-388. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Markman, A. (2009). Constructional sources of implicit agents in sentence comprehension. Cognitive Linguistics, 20(4), 675-702. [More Information]
Markman, A., Blok, S., Dennis, J., Kim, K., Goldwater, M., Laux, J., Narvaez, L., Taylor, E. (2005). Culture and Individual Differences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(6), 831-831. [More Information]

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Conferences

Hilton, C., Goldwater, M. (2019). Linguistic syncopation: Alignment of musical meter to syntactic structure and its effect on sentence processing. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019, : Springer Verlag.
Friedman,, S., Goldwater, M. (2019). Simulating Explanatory Coexistence: Integrated, Synthetic, and Target-Dependent Reasoning. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019, : Springer Verlag.
Jaramillo,, S., Horne,, Z., Goldwater, M. (2019). The impact of anecdotal information on medical decision-making. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019, : Springer Verlag.
Lai, P., Jacobson, M., Goldwater, M. (2018). Learning nanoscience concepts through a nanoscale experience. 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2018), London: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Hamilton, T., Doai, J., Milne, A., Saisanas, V., Calilhanna, A., Hilton, C., Goldwater, M., Cohn, R. (2018). Teaching Mathematics with Music: A Pilot Study. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE 2018), Wollongong: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
Thibaut,, J., Goldwater, M. (2017). Generalizing relations during analogical problem solving in preschool children: does blocked or interleaved training improve performance? 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017), : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Dekel, S., Burns, B., Goldwater, M. (2017). Leaping across the mental canyon: Analogical retrieval across disparate task domains. 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017), : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Goldwater, M., Horne,, Z., Powell,, D., Hummel,, J., Loewenstein,, J., Goldstone,, R. (2016). Effecting re-representation: revising false beliefs and fostering creativity. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016, : Springer Verlag.
Goldwater, M., Pajak,, B., Gentner,, D., Shao,, R., Goldberg,, A. (2015). Analogical Processes in Language Learning. 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2015), : SPIE.
Don, H., Goldwater, M., Otto, R., Livesey, E. (2015). Connecting rule-abstraction and model-based choice across disparate learning tasks. 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2015), : SPIE.
Jamrozik, A., Sagi, E., Goldwater, M., Gentner, D. (2013). Relational words have high metaphoric potential. 2013 Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics: First Workshop on Metaphor in NLP, Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Taylor, J., Friedman, S., Forbus, K., Goldwater, M., Gentner, D. (2011). Modeling structural priming in sentence production via analogical processes. The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin: Cognitive Science Society.
Goldwater, M., Markman, A. (2006). Constructional sources of implicit agents in sentence comprehension. the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX: the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

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2024

Lim, M., Zammit, C., Lewis, E., Ee, N., Maiden, G., Goldwater, M., Kimonis, E., Kenning, G., Rockwood, K., Fitzgerald, A., et al (2024). A 10-week intergenerational program bringing together community-living older adults and preschool children (INTERACTION): a pilot feasibility non-randomised clinical trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 10(1). [More Information]
Rett, A., Amemiya, J., Hwang, B., Goldwater, M., Walker, C. (2024). Children’s Recognition of Causal System Categories Across Superficially Distinct Events. Developmental Psychology. [More Information]
Yaqub, W., Kay, J., Goldwater, M. (2024). Foundations for Enabling People to Recognise Misinformation in Social Media News based on Retracted Science. ACM Proceedings on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1). [More Information]
Chow, J., Goldwater, M., Colagiuri, B., Livesey, E. (2024). Instruction on the Scientific Method Provides (Some) Protection Against Illusions of Causality. Open Mind, 8, 639-665. [More Information]

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2023

Hashmi, F., Burger, O., Goldwater, M., Johnson, T., Legare, C. (2023). Integrating Human-Centered Design and Social Science Research to Improve Service-Delivery and Empower Community Health Workers: Lessons from Project RISE. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 9(4), 489-517. [More Information]
Dekel, S., Burns, B., Goldwater, M. (2023). Leaping across the mental canyon: higher-order long-distance analogical retrieval. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 35(8), 856-875. [More Information]
Kessler, F., Proske, A., Urbas, L., Goldwater, M., Krieger, F., Greiff, S., Narciss, S. (2023). Promoting Complex Problem Solving by Introducing Schema-Governed Categories of Key Causal Models. Behavioral Sciences, 13(9). [More Information]
Rawlings, B., Erut, A., Fong, F., Ghelardi, S., Goldwater, M., Ingram, G., Messer, E., Kingsford, J., Lew-Levy, S., Mendez, K., et al (2023). Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies. Developmental Science. [More Information]
Resnick, I., Newcombe, N., Goldwater, M. (2023). Reasoning About Fraction and Decimal Magnitudes, Reasoning Proportionally, and Mathematics Achievement in Australia and the United States. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 9(1), 222-239. [More Information]
Ni, B., Burns, B., Mak, K., Lah, S., Silva, D., Goldwater, M., Kleitman, S. (2023). To kill or not to kill: A systematic literature review of high-stakes moral decision-making measures and their psychometric properties. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1063607. [More Information]

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2022

Goldwater, M., Hilton, C., Davis, T. (2022). Developing an Educational Neuroscience of Category Learning. Mind, Brain, and Education, 16(2), 167-182. [More Information]
Hilton, C., Goldwater, M., Hancock, D., Clemson, M., Huang, A., Denyer, G. (2022). Scalable Science Education via Online Cooperative Questioning. CBE Life Science Education, 21(1). [More Information]
Lacour, M., Hughes, B., Goldwater, M., Ireland, M., Worthy, D., Van Allen, J., Van-Hoosier, G., Davis, T. (2022). The Double Bind of Communicating About Zoonotic Origins: Describing Exotic Animal Sources of COVID-19 Increases Both Healthy and Discriminatory Avoidance Intentions. Risk Analysis, 42(3), 506-521. [More Information]

2021

Boulton, K., Coghill, D., Silove, N., Pellicano, E., Whitehouse, A., Bellgrove, M., Rinehart, N., Lah, S., Redoblado Hodge, M., Badawi, N., Burns, J., Nanan, R., Novak, I., Goldwater, M., Munro, N., Togher, L., Nassar, N., Guastella, A., et al (2021). A national harmonised data collection network for neurodevelopmental disorders: A transdiagnostic assessment protocol for neurodevelopment, mental health, functioning and well-being. JCPP Advances, 1(4), e12048. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Gentner, D., LaDue, N., Libarkin, J. (2021). Analogy Generation in Science Experts and Novices. Cognitive Science, 45(9), e13036. [More Information]
Kenning, G., Ee, N., Xu, Y., Luu, B., Ward, S., Goldwater, M., Lewis, E., Radford, K., Anstey, K., Lautenschlager, N., et al (2021). Intergenerational practice in the community—what does the community think? Social Sciences, 10(10). [More Information]
Peters, R., Ee, N., Ward, S., Kenning, G., Radford, K., Goldwater, M., Dodge, H., Lewis, E., Xu, Y., Kudrna, G., Hamilton, M., et al (2021). Intergenerational Programmes bringing together community dwelling non-familial older adults and children: A Systematic Review. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 94, 104356. [More Information]
Hilton, C., Goldwater, M. (2021). Linguistic syncopation: Meter-syntax alignment affects sentence comprehension and sensorimotor synchronization. Cognition, 217, 1-12. [More Information]
Parker, L., Byrne, J., Goldwater, M., Enfield, N. (2021). Misinformation: An empirical study with scientists and communicators during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ Open Science, 5(1), e100188-1-e100188-11. [More Information]
Chow, J., Colagiuri, B., Rottman, B., Goldwater, M., Livesey, E. (2021). Pseudoscientific health beliefs and the perceived frequency of causal relationships. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(21), 11196. [More Information]
Davis, T., Goldwater, M. (2021). Using model-based neuroimaging to adjudicate structured and continuous representational accounts in same-different categorization and beyond. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 37, 103-108. [More Information]

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2020

Goldwater, M., Gershman, S., Moul, C., Ludowici, C., Burton, A., Killer, B., Kuhnert, R., Ridgway, K. (2020). Children's understanding of habitual behaviour. Developmental Science, 23(5), e12951. [More Information]
Davis, T., Lacour, M., Goldwater, M., Hughes, B., Ireland, M., Worthy, D., Van Allen, J. (2020). Communicating about diseases that originate in animals: Lessons from the psychology of inductive reasoning. Behavioral Science & Policy, 6(2), 1-11. [More Information]
Don, H., Goldwater, M., Greenaway, J., Hutchings, R., Livesey, E. (2020). Relational Rule Discovery in Complex Discrimination Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(10), 1807-1827. [More Information]
Jacobson, M., Goldwater, M., Markauskaite, L., Lai, P., Kapur, M., Roberts, G., Hilton, C. (2020). Schema abstraction with productive failure and analogical comparison: Learning designs for far across domain transfer. Learning and Instruction, 65, 1-15. [More Information]

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2019

Goldwater, M., Jamrozik, A. (2019). Can a relational mindset boost analogical retrieval? Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4(1), 1-16. [More Information]
Hilton, C., Goldwater, M. (2019). Linguistic syncopation: Alignment of musical meter to syntactic structure and its effect on sentence processing. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019, : Springer Verlag.
Friedman,, S., Goldwater, M. (2019). Simulating Explanatory Coexistence: Integrated, Synthetic, and Target-Dependent Reasoning. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019, : Springer Verlag.
Jaramillo,, S., Horne,, Z., Goldwater, M. (2019). The impact of anecdotal information on medical decision-making. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019, : Springer Verlag.

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2018

Ambridge, B., Goldwater, M., Lieven, E. (2018). Analogical structure mapping and the formation of abstract constructions: A novel construction learning study. Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 24, 177-196. [More Information]
Lai, P., Jacobson, M., Goldwater, M. (2018). Learning nanoscience concepts through a nanoscale experience. 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2018), London: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Goldwater, M., Don, H., Krusche, M., Livesey, E. (2018). Relational Discovery in Category Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(1), 1-35. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Brunt, R., Echols, C. (2018). Speech Facilitates the Categorization of Motions in 9-Month-Old Infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1-13. [More Information]
Hamilton, T., Doai, J., Milne, A., Saisanas, V., Calilhanna, A., Hilton, C., Goldwater, M., Cohn, R. (2018). Teaching Mathematics with Music: A Pilot Study. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE 2018), Wollongong: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]

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2017

Davis, T., Goldwater, M., Ireland, M., Gaylord, N., Van Allen, J. (2017). Can you catch Ebola from a stork bite? Inductive reasoning influences generalization of perceived zoonosis risk. PloS One, 12(11), 1-21. [More Information]
Davis, T., Goldwater, M., Giron, J. (2017). From Concrete Examples to Abstract Relations: The Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Integrates Novel Examples into Relational Categories. Cerebral Cortex, 27(4), 2652-2670. [More Information]
Thibaut,, J., Goldwater, M. (2017). Generalizing relations during analogical problem solving in preschool children: does blocked or interleaved training improve performance? 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017), : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Goldwater, M. (2017). Grammatical Constructions as Relational Categories. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9(3), 776-799. [More Information]
Dekel, S., Burns, B., Goldwater, M. (2017). Leaping across the mental canyon: Analogical retrieval across disparate task domains. 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017), : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Livesey, E., Goldwater, M., Colagiuri, B. (2017). Will human-like machines make human-like mistakes? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 1-5. [More Information]

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2016

Goldwater, M., Horne,, Z., Powell,, D., Hummel,, J., Loewenstein,, J., Goldstone,, R. (2016). Effecting re-representation: revising false beliefs and fostering creativity. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016, : Springer Verlag.
Goldwater, M., Bainbridge, R., Murphy, G. (2016). Learning of role-governed and thematic categories. Acta Psychologica, 164, 112-126. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Schalk, L. (2016). Relational Categories as a Bridge Between Cognitive and Educational Research. Psychological Bulletin, 142(7), 729-757. [More Information]
Don, H., Goldwater, M., Otto, R., Livesey, E. (2016). Rule abstraction, model-based choice, and cognitive reflection. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23(5), 1615-1623. [More Information]

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2015

Goldwater, M., Pajak,, B., Gentner,, D., Shao,, R., Goldberg,, A. (2015). Analogical Processes in Language Learning. 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2015), : SPIE.
Don, H., Goldwater, M., Otto, R., Livesey, E. (2015). Connecting rule-abstraction and model-based choice across disparate learning tasks. 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2015), : SPIE.
Goldwater, M., Markman, A., Trujillo, L., Schnyer, D. (2015). Licensing Novel Role-Governed Categories: An ERP Analysis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 1-9. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Gentner, D. (2015). On the acquisition of abstract knowledge: Structural alignment and explication in learning causal system categories. Cognition, 137, 137-153. [More Information]

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2014

Smith, L., Ping, R., Matlen, B., Goldwater, M., Gentner, D., Levine, S. (2014). Mechanisms of spatial learning: Teaching children geometric categories. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 8684, 325-337. [More Information]

2013

Jamrozik, A., Sagi, E., Goldwater, M., Gentner, D. (2013). Relational words have high metaphoric potential. 2013 Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics: First Workshop on Metaphor in NLP, Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Davis, T., Goldwater, M., Gaylord, N., Worthy, D., Otto, R., Glass, B. (2013). The Cognitive Psychology of Human-Bat-Interactions: Implications for Ecological Policy and Zoonotic Disease Transmission. In Gwynne A. Geyer (Eds.), Bats: Phylogeny and Evolutionary Insights, Conservation Strategies and Role in Disease Transmission, (pp. 39-56). Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers.

2012

Rottman, B., Gentner, D., Goldwater, M. (2012). Causal systems categories: Differences in novice and expert categorization of causal phenomena. Cognitive Science, 36(5), 912-932. [More Information]

2011

Goldwater, M., Markman, A. (2011). Categorizing entities by common role. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 18(2), 406-413. [More Information]
Taylor, J., Friedman, S., Forbus, K., Goldwater, M., Gentner, D. (2011). Modeling structural priming in sentence production via analogical processes. The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin: Cognitive Science Society.
Goldwater, M., Runner, J. (2011). On the Representational Nature of Representational Noun Phrases. In Jeffery T. Runner (Eds.), Syntax and Semantics: Experiments at the Interfaces, (pp. 219-250). Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Goldwater, M., Tomlinson, M., Love, B., Echols, C. (2011). Structural priming as structure-mapping: Young children use analogies from previous utterances to guide sentence production. Cognitive Science, 35(1), 156-170. [More Information]
Goldwater, M., Markman, A., Stilwell, H. (2011). The empirical case for role-governed categories. Cognition, 118(3), 359-376. [More Information]

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2010

Rein, J., Goldwater, M., Markman, A. (2010). What is typical about the typicality effect in category-based induction? Memory & Cognition, 38(3), 377-388. [More Information]

2009

Goldwater, M., Markman, A. (2009). Constructional sources of implicit agents in sentence comprehension. Cognitive Linguistics, 20(4), 675-702. [More Information]

2006

Goldwater, M., Markman, A. (2006). Constructional sources of implicit agents in sentence comprehension. the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX: the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

2005

Markman, A., Blok, S., Dennis, J., Kim, K., Goldwater, M., Laux, J., Narvaez, L., Taylor, E. (2005). Culture and Individual Differences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(6), 831-831. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2024

Understanding Psychological Warfare in Australia and Abroad, Building Public Awareness and Resilience, Kleitman S, Goldwater M, School of Psychology/Core Funding Grant

2021

The development of the frontopolar cortex and higher-level cognitive abilities in childhood and adolescence., Goldwater M, School of Psychology/Seed Grant

2020

Cognitive fitness and morality, Kleitman S, Burns B, Costa D, Goldwater M, School of Psychology/Booster Grant
The Ontogeny of Cumulative Culture, Goldwater M, National Science Foundation/Research Grant
Misunderstanding of Related Risks, Lovallo D, Goldwater M, Sydney Business School/Pilot Research Scheme

2019

Belief formation and change across levels of analysis: From individual brains to societal levelchanges, Goldwater M, School of Psychology/Booster Grant

2017

CDIP Industry & Community Engagement Fund 2017 - Organizational Eco-Maps: Mapping Innovation - ECEL_GOLDWATER, Goldwater M, DVC Research/Industry & Community Engagement Seed Fund (I&CEF)

2016

The development of attentional control in children with and without anxiety, Goldwater M, Faculty of Science/Seed Funding
fNIRS Developmental Neuroimaging Laboratory, Goldwater M, Faculty of Science/Research Equipment and Infrastructure Scheme

2015

Solving the inert knowledge problem, Goldwater M, Jacobson M, Livesey E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2014

How Stress hurts Cognition and How to Deal With It., Goldwater M, Otto R, Gershman S, Office of Global Engagement/IPDF Grant

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