Max Siegel's Cyber-Home On The World Wide Web!!
(maxs __-- @t --__ mit.edu)
I am a postdoc in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT; I graduated from this department in September 2018. I'm advised by Josh Tenenbaum, and I also work with Laura Schulz and Josh McDermott.
Research
Siegel*, M.H., Magid*, R.W., Pelz, M., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Schulz, L.E. (2021). Children’s exploratory play tracks the discriminability of hypotheses. Nature Communications. (supplementary information)
Egger, B, Siegel, M.H., Arora, R., Soltani, A.A., Yildirim, I., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2020). Inverse Rendering Best Explains Face Perception Under Extreme Illuminations. Proceedings of the 42th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Yildirim, I., Siegel, M.H., Tenenbaum, J.B. (2020). Physical object representations for perception and cognition. The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th edition.
Wang, Y., Gan, C., Siegel, M.H., Zhang, Z., Wu, J., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2019). A Computational Model for Combinatorial Generalization in Physical Auditory Perception. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
Ullman, T., Kosoy, E., Yildirim, I., Soltani, A.A., Siegel, M.H., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Spelke, E.S. (2019) Draping an Elephant: Uncovering Children's Reasoning About Cloth-Covered Objects. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Siegel, M.H., Tenenbaum, J.B., & McDermott, J.H. (2018). Physical Inference for Object Perception in Complex Auditory Scenes. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Gerstenberg, T., Siegel, M.H., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2018). What happened? Reconstructing the past through vision and sound. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Woods, K.J.P., Siegel, M.H., Traer, J., & McDermott, J.H. (2017). Headphone screening to facilitate web-based auditory experiments. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. (supplementary information).
Magid, R. W., Yan, P., Siegel, M.H., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Schulz, L. E. (2017). Changing minds: Children's inferences about third party belief revision. Developmental Science. (supplementary information).
Velez-Ginorio, J., Siegel, M.H., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2017). Interpreting actions by attributing compositional desires. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Magid*, R., Siegel*, M.H., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Schulz, L.E. (2017). Intuitive psychophysics: Children's exploratory play quantitatively tracks the discriminability of alternative hypotheses. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Yildirim*, I., Siegel*, M.H., Tenenbaum, J.B. (2016). Perceiving Occluded Objects via Physical Simulation. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Ullman, T.D., Siegel, M.H., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Gershman, S.J. (2016). Coalescing the Vapors of Human Experience into a Viable and Meaningful Comprehension. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Green, C.S., Kattner, F., Siegel, M.H., Kersten, D., & Schrater, P.R. (2015). Differences in perceptual learning transfer as a function of training task. Journal of Vision.
Siegel, M. H., Magid, R., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, L. E. (2014). Black boxes: Hypothesis testing via indirect perceptual evidence. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.