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maxs@mit.edu

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I am a research scientist in the Computational Cognitive Science group in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. I graduated from this department in September 2018.

Ying, L., Xu, D., Zhang, A., Collins, K., Siegel, M., Tenenbaum, J. (2025). What's in the Box? Reasoning about Unseen Objects from Multimodal Cues. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Machino, Y., Siegel, M., Hofer, M., Tenenbaum, J., Hawkins, R. (2025). Minding the Politeness Gap in Cross-cultural Communication. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Friedman, Y., Ghavami, M., Bowers, M., Bolton, A., Siegel, M., Mansinghka, V., Tenenbaum, J. (2025). Tracking Uncertainty During Uncertain Tracking. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Jonusaite, I., Perez, K., Siegel, M., Schulz, L. (2024). Ad Hoc Theories: How Social Interaction Helps Us Make Sense of the World. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Washington, B., Leahy, B., Siegel, M., Radifera, S., Struhl, M., Schulz, L. (2024). From the mouths of babes: Toddlers' early word production favors information in common ground. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Yildirim*, I., Siegel*, M., Soltani*, A., Ray Chaudhuri, S., Tenenbaum, J. (2023). Perception of 3D shape integrates intuitive physics and analysis-by-synthesis. Nature Human Behaviour.
Mazor, M., Siegel, M., Tenenbaum, J. (2023). Prospective search time estimates reveal the strengths and limits of internal models of visual search.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Coates, N., Siegel, M., Tenenbaum, J., Schulz, L. (2023). Representations of abstract relations in early childhood. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Siegel*, M., Magid*, R., Pelz, M., Tenenbaum, J., Schulz, L. (2021). Children's exploratory play tracks the discriminability of hypotheses. Nature Communications.
Yildirim, I., Siegel, M., Tenenbaum, J. (2020). Physical Object Representations for Perception and Cognition. The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th Edition.
Egger, B., Siegel, M., Arora, R., Soltani, A., Yildirim, I., Tenenbaum, J. (2020). Inverse rendering best explains face perception under extreme illuminations. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Wang, Y., Gan, C., Siegel, M., Zhang, Z., Wu, J., Tenenbaum, J. (2019). A Computational Model for Combinatorial Generalization in Physical Perception from Sound. 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
Ullman, T., Kosoy, E., Yildrim, I., Soltani, A., Siegel, M., Tenenbaum, J., Spelke, E. (2019). Draping an Elephant: Uncovering Children's Reasoning About Cloth-Covered Objects. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Gerstenberg, T., Siegel, M., Tenenbaum, J. (2018). What happened? Reconstructing the past through vision and sound. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Siegel, M., Tenenbaum, J., McDermott, J. (2018). Physical Inference for Object Perception in Complex Auditory Scenes.. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Woods, K., Siegel, M., Traer, J., McDermott, J. (2017). Headphone screening to facilitate web-based auditory experiments. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
Magid, R., Yan, P., Siegel, M., Tenenbaum, J., Schulz, L. (2017). Changing minds: Children's inferences about third party belief revision. Developmental Science.
Velez-Ginorio, J., Siegel, M., Tenenbaum, J., Jara-Ettinger, J. (2017). Interpreting actions by attributing compositional desires. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Magid*, R., Siegel*, M., Tenenbaum, J., Schulz, L. (2017). Intuitive psychophysics: Children's exploratory play quantitatively tracks the discriminability of alternative hypotheses.. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Ullman, T., Siegel, M., Tenenbaum, J., Gershman, S. (2016). Coalescing the Vapors of Human Experienceinto a Viable and Meaningful Comprehension. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Yildirim*, I., Siegel*, M., Tenenbaum, J. (2016). Perceiving fully occluded objects via physical simulation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Green, C., Kattner, F., Siegel, M., Kersten, D., Schrater, P. (2015). Differences in perceptual learning transfer as a function of training task. Journal of vision.
Siegel, M., Magid, R., Tenenbaum, J., Schulz, L. (2014). Black boxes: Hypothesis testing via indirect perceptual evidence. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.