Publications

Oey, L. A., & Vul, E. (2023). Accurate approximations about the truth from literally false messages. Computational Brain & Behavior. [html] [pdf]

Oey, L. A., Schachner, A., & Vul, E. (2023). Designing and detecting lies by reasoning about other agents. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(2), 346-362. [html] [pdf]

DeStefano, I.*, Oey, L. A.*, Brockbank, E., & Vul, E. (2021). Integration by parts: Collaboration and topic structure in the CogSci community. Topics in Cognitive Science, 13(2), 399-413. [html] [pdf]

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Huey, H.*, Oey, L. A.*, Lloyd, H. S., & Fan, J. E. (2023). How do communicative goals guide which data visualizations people think are effective? In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2229-2236). [pdf]

Oey, L. A., & Vul, E. (2022). Inferring truth from lies. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1469-1475). [pdf]

Oey, L., & Vul, E. (2021). Lies are crafted to the audience. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 791-797). [pdf]

Oey, L.*, DeStefano, I.*, Brockbank, E., & Vul, E. (2020). Formalizing interdisciplinary collaboration in the CogSci community. In S. Denison, M. L. Mack, Y. Xu, & B. C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 474-480). [pdf]
Winner of CogSci's Computational Modeling Prize in Applied Cognition

Oey, L. A., Schachner, A., & Vul, E. (2019). Designing good deception: Recursive theory of mind in lying and lie detection. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 897-903). [pdf]

Oey, L. A., Mollica, F., & Piantadosi, S. T. (2018). Adults use gradient similarity information in compositional rules. In T. T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 842-847). [pdf]

Posters & Presentations

Huey, H.*, Oey, L. A.*, Lloyd, H. S. & Fan, J. E. (2023). How do communicative goals guide which data visualizations people think are effective? Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia.

Oey, L. A., & Vul, E. (2022). Inferring truth from lies. Poster presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Oey, L. A. & Vul, E. (2021). Lies are crafted to the audience. Talk presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Virtual.

Oey, L.*, DeStefano, I.*, Brockbank, E., & Vul, E. (2020). Formalizing interdisciplinary collaboration in the CogSci community. Talk presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Virtual.

Oey, L. A., Schachner, A., & Vul, E. (2019). Designing good deception: Recursive theory of mind in lying and lie detection. Talk presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Oey, L. A., Schachner, A., & Vul, E. (2019). Recursive theory-of-mind in the design of deception: A rational model of lying and lie detection. Talk presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Honorable Mention for SPP's William James Prize (2nd best paper)

Oey, L. A., Mollica, F., & Piantadosi, S. T. (2018). Adults use gradient similarity information in compositional rules. Talk presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Oey, L. A., Mollica, F., & Piantadosi, S. T. (2018). Concepts are like rules but gradient: Preserving gradience in a logical model of mental representation. Talk presented at the University of Rochester 2018 Undergraduate Research Exposition, Rochester, NY.
Winner of the UofR President's Award for Best Talk in Social Sciences

Oey, L. A., Mollica, F., & Piantadosi, S. T. (2018). Like a horse but striped: Combining similarity and rules in conceptual representation. Talk presented at the 32nd Annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Oklahoma City, OK.

Oey, L., Lee, C., Simon, E., Xie, X., & Jaeger, T. F. (2017). Talker generalization of accent adaptation: Questioning its robustness. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference, Lancaster, UK. [pdf]

Lee, C., Oey, L., Simon, E., Xie, X., & Jaeger, T. F. (2017). An investigation into audio perception studies on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference, Lancaster, UK. [pdf]

Oey, L., Schulman, A., Tessler, M. H., & Goodman, N. D. (2017). Communicating generalizations in web-based dyadic games. Talk presented at the conclusion of the 4th Annual Center for the Study of Language and Information Summer Internship Program, Stanford, CA. [pdf]

Lee, C.*, Oey, L.*, Simon, E.*, Xie, X., & Jaeger, T. F. (2017). How we comprehend foreign-accented speech: Learning to generalize across talkers. Poster presented at the University of Rochester 2017 Undergraduate Research Exposition, Rochester, NY.

Oey, L.*, Lee, C.*, Simon, E.*, Xie, X., & Jaeger, T. F. (2017). Generalized adaptation to novel foreign accents. Poster accepted at the 31st Annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Memphis, TN.

Ph.D. Dissertation

Oey, L. A. (2023). Strategic behavior in social environments. [pdf]

Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Oey, L. A. (2018). Gradient similarity within compositional representations. [pdf]