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Journal publications
Blokpoel, M., (2024). mathlib: A Scala package for readable, verifiable and sustainable simulations of formal theory. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(99), 6049, 10.21105/joss.06049.
Eijk, L.D., Rasenberg, M., Arnese, F., Blokpoel, M., Dingemanse, M., Döller, C.F.A., Ernestus, M.T.C., Holler, J.A.M., Milivojevic, B., Özyürek, A., Pouw, W., Rooij, I.J.E.I. van, Schriefers, H.J., Toni, I., Trujillo, J.P. & Bögels, S. (2022). The CABB dataset: A multimodal corpus of communicative interactions for behavioural and neural analyses. NeuroImage, 264:119734. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119734
Rich, P., Blokpoel, M., de Haan, R., & van Rooij, I. (2020). How intractability spans the cognitive and evolutionary levels of explanation. Topics in Cognitive Science, 12, 1382–1402.
van Rooij, I., & Blokpoel, M. (2020). Formalizing verbal theories: A tutorial by dialogue. Social Psychology 51(5), 285-298.
Könings, M., Blokpoel, M., Kapusta, K., Claassen, T., Buitelaar, J. K., Glennon, J. C., & Bielczyk, N. Z. (2019). Quantifying free behaviour in an open field using k-motif approach. Sci Rep 9 (19873).
Rich, P., Blokpoel, M., de Haan, R., Otworowska, M., Sweers, M., Wareham, T., & van Rooij, I. (2019). Naturalism, tractability and the adaptive toolbox. Synthese 198, pages 5749–5784.
van Rooij, I., Blokpoel, M., de Haan, R., Wareham, T. (2019). Tractable embodied computation needs embeddedness. Reti, saperi, linguaggi: Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences 1.
Blokpoel, M., Wareham, T., Haselager, P., Toni, I., & van Rooij, I. (2018). Deep analogical inference as the origin of hypotheses. Journal of Problem Solving 11(1), 10.7771/1932-6246.1197.
Otworowska, M., Blokpoel, M., Sweers, M., Wareham, T., & van Rooij, I. (2018). Demons of ecological rationality. Cognitive Science, 42, 1057-1066.
Blokpoel, M. (2018). Sculpting computational-level models. Topics in Cognitive Science, 10(3), 641-648.
de Boer, M., Kodal, I., Blokpoel, M., Stolk, A., Roelofs, K., van Rooij, I., & Toni, I. (2017). Oxytocin modulates human communication by enhancing cognitive exploration. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 86, 64-72.
Stolk, A., Verhagen, L., Schoffelen, J., Oostenveld, R., Blokpoel, M., Hagoort, P., van Rooij, I., & Toni, I. (2013). Neural mechanisms of communicative innovation. PNAS, 110(36), 14574-14579.
Blokpoel, M., Kwisthout, J., van der Weide, Theo P., Wareham, T., & van Rooij, I. (2013). A computational-level explanation of the speed of goal inference. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 570(3-4), 117-133.
Blokpoel, M., Kwisthout, J., & van Rooij, I. (2012) When can predictive brains be truly Bayesian? Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 3(460), 1-3.
Blokpoel, M., van Kesteren, M., Stolk, A., Haselager, P., Toni, I., & van Rooij, I. (2012). Recipient design in human communication: Simple heuristics or perspective taking? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6(253), 1-13.
van Rooij, I., Kwisthout, J., Blokpoel, M., Szymanik, J., Wareham, T., & Toni, I. (2011). Intentional communication: Computationally easy or difficult? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5(52), 1-18.
Books
Blokpoel, M. & van Rooij, I. (2021). Theoretical modeling for cognitive science and psychology.
van Rooij, I., Blokpoel, M., Kwisthout, J., Wareham, T. (2019). Intractability and Cognition: A guide to classical and parameterized complexity analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Stolk, A., Blokpoel, M., van Rooij, I., & Toni, I. (2015). On the generation of shared symbols. In R. Willems (Ed.), Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use. Cambridge University Press.
Conference publications
van de Braak, L., de Haan, R., Dingemanse, M., Toni, I., van Rooij, I. & Blokpoel, M. (2024) Intractability obstacles to explanations of communication. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM). Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Woensdregt, M., Blokpoel, M., van Rooij, I. & Martin, A. (2024) Challenges for a Computational Explanation of Flexible Linguistic Inference. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM). Tilburg, The Netherlands.
van de Braak, L., Dingemanse, M., Toni, I., van Rooij, I. & Blokpoel, M. (2021) Computational challenges in explaining communication: How deep the rabbit hole goes. In Proceedings of the 43th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Woensdregt, M., Spike, M., de Haan, R., Wareham, T, van Rooij, I. & Blokpoel, M. (2021) Why is scaling up models of language evolution hard? In Proceedings of the 43th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
van Arkel, J., Woensdregt, M., Dingemanse, M. & Blokpoel, M. (2020). A simple repair mechanism can alleviate computational demands of pragmatic reasoning: simulations and complexity analysis. In Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2020).
Blokpoel, M., Dingemanse, M., Kachergis, G., Bögels, S., Drijvers, L., Eijk, L., Ernestus, M., de Haas, N., Holler, J., Levinson, S., Lui, R., Milivojevic, B., Neville, D., Ozyurek, A., Rasenberg, M., Schriefers, H., Trujillo, J., Winner, T., Toni, I., van Rooij, I. (2018). Ambiguity helps higher-order pragmatic reasoners communicate. In Proceedings of the 14th Biannual Conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science. Darmstadt, Germany.
Zeppi, A., & Blokpoel, M. (2017). Does mindshaping makes mindreading tractable? Bridging the gap between theory and formal analysis. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Blokpoel, M., Kwisthout, J., Wareham, T., Haselager, P., Toni, I., & van Rooij, I. (2011). The computational costs of recipient design and intention recognition in communication. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Blokpoel, M., Kwisthout, J., van der Weide, T., & van Rooij, I. (2010). How Action Understanding can be rational, Bayesian and tractable. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Blokpoel, M., Grootjen, F. A., & van den Broek, E. L. (2008). Exploiting coarse grained parallelism in conceptual data mining. In Proceedings of the Dutch Information Retrieval Conference, Maastricht.
PhD Thesis
Blokpoel, M. (2015). Understanding understanding: A computational-level perspective. Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.