tony chen - vita

education

massachusetts institute of technology
phd candidate in brain and cognitive sciences

boston college
mathematics b.a., psychology b.a., computer science (minor)
advisor: joshua hartshorne
summa cum laude

experience

morality lab (pi: liane young)
social and cognitive computational neuroscience lab (pi: stefano anzellotti)
language learning lab (pi: joshua hartshorne)
laboratory for neural computation and cognition (pi: michael frank)

publications

• denotes equal contribution

journal articles

2021	chen, tony, harthshorne, joshua. k. (2021). more evidence from over 1.1 million subjects that the critical period for syntax closes in late adolescence. cognition.
2021	fengler, alexander, govindarajan, lakshmi n., chen, tony, frank, michael j. (2021). likelihood approximation networks (lans) for fast inference of simulation models in cognitive neuroscience. elife.

conference proceedings

talks

2023	chen, tony•, ostrow, mitchell•, sung, hokyung•, zhang, cedegao•. do deep neural networks have concepts? conference on the philosophy of deep learning.
2022	kim, minjae•, chen, tony•, anzellotti, stefano, and young, liane l. situational attributions and asymmetries in social learning. the 2022 annual convention of the society of personality and social psychology.
2021	chen, tony, o'donnell, timothy j., and hartshorne, joshua. verb argument structure and semantics in language models. the 12th dubrovnik conference on cognitive science.
2019	chen, tony, and hartshorne, joshua. revisiting a critical period for syntax in a second language: new analyses provide the same results. the 32nd cuny conference on human sentence processing.

posters

2023	mills, tracey•, zhang, cedegao•, chen, tony•, tenenbaum, joshua b. towards a computational account of confidence in concept learning. the 2023 annual convention of the society for philosophy and psychology.
2022	chen, tony, kim, minjae, anzellotti, stefano, and young, liane. situational attributions in belief updating. the 2022 annual convention of the society for personality and social psychology.
2020	chen, tony, and hartshorne, joshua. more evidence that the critical period for syntax ends at 17. the 44th boston university conference on language development.

teaching

2019	teaching assistant - psychoactive drugs (brown)