Experiments

These experiments have been standardized through CogGym's model-agnostic pipeline so humans and models can be compared on the same paradigms. Open a study to inspect the task, then launch the participant flow from the detail page.

Browse 113 currently interactive experiments from the 120-experiment licensed release, including 16 from the 23-experiment fully open release.

Study descriptions and tasks are viewable here; original human response data are not included on this page. Download the open 10-study package from the Dataset page. To access the licensed 50-study package, review and sign the research-use agreement.

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Fully open experiments

16 interactive experiments from the open release.

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Additional licensed-set experiments

97 additional interactive experiments. Viewing a task does not grant access to the licensed dataset or human responses.

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Computational models reveal intuitive physics and statistical cues separately contribute to the visual perception of liquids (Exp 1)

Zhang et al. (2026)

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Experiments

Fully open experiments

Quantitative mental state attributions in language understanding (Exp 3)

Cooperative Explanation as Rational Communication (Exp 1)

People can infer the magnitude of other people's knowledge even when they cannot infer its contents (Exp 1)

Non-literal Understanding of Number Words by Language Models (Exp 1)

Partial mental simulation explains fallacies in physical reasoning (Exp 1)

Hierarchical Abstraction Enables Human-Like 3D Object Recognition in Deep Learning Models (Exp 1)

Moral Dynamics: Grounding Moral Judgment in Intuitive Physics and Intuitive Psychology (Exp 1)

Polite speech emerges from competing social goals (Exp 1)

Polite speech emerges from competing social goals (Exp 2)

People can infer the magnitude of other people's knowledge even when they cannot infer its contents (Exp 2)

Quantitative mental state attributions in language understanding (Exp 1)

Moral Dynamics: Grounding Moral Judgment in Intuitive Physics and Intuitive Psychology (Exp 2)

Quantitative mental state attributions in language understanding (Exp 2)

Hierarchical Abstraction Enables Human-Like 3D Object Recognition in Deep Learning Models (Exp 2)

Non-literal Understanding of Number Words by Language Models (Exp 3b)

Moral Dynamics: Grounding Moral Judgment in Intuitive Physics and Intuitive Psychology (Exp 3)

Additional licensed-set experiments

Causal judgments in complex situations (Exp 1)

Causal judgments in complex situations (Exp 2)

Causal judgments in complex situations (Exp 3)

From chopped to cooked: Design and inference in physical environments (Exp 1)

Computational models reveal intuitive physics and statistical cues separately contribute to the visual perception of liquids (Exp 1)

Intervening on Emotions by Planning Over a Theory of Mind (Exp 1)

Intervening on Emotions by Planning Over a Theory of Mind (Exp 2)

Who went fishing? Inferences from social evaluations (Exp 1)

Inference from social evaluation. (Exp 3a)

Predicting pragmatic reasoning in language games (Exp 2)

Predicting pragmatic reasoning in language games (Exp 3)

Procedural Dilemma Generation for Evaluating Moral Reasoning in Humans and Language Models (Exp 2)

A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments for physical events. (Exp 1)

The Naïve Utility Calculus as a unified, quantitative framework for action understanding (Exp 2)

The Naïve Utility Calculus as a unified, quantitative framework for action understanding (Exp 6)

The language of causation (Exp 1)

People can use the placement of objects to infer communicative goals (Exp 3b)

People can use the placement of objects to infer communicative goals (Exp 3c)

Social inferences from physical evidence via Bayesian event reconstruction (Exp 1a)

What would have happened? Counterfactuals, hypotheticals, and causal judgements (Exp 3)

Affective cognition: Exploring lay theories of emotion (Exp 1)

Rational quantitative attribution of beliefs, desires and percepts in human mentalizing (Exp 1)

Affective cognition: Exploring lay theories of emotion (Exp 4)

A Semantics for Causing, Enabling, and Preventing Verbs Using Structural Causal Models (Exp 1)

What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model (Exp 2)

What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model (Exp 3)

What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model (Exp 4)

The role of relevance, competence, and priors for scalar inferences (Exp 1)

Social inferences from physical evidence via Bayesian event reconstruction (Exp 1b)

Integrating emotional expressions with utterances in pragmatic inference (Exp 2)

A computational model of responsibility judgments from counterfactual simulations and intention inferences (Exp 1a)

A computational model of responsibility judgments from counterfactual simulations and intention inferences (Exp 1c)

A computational model of responsibility judgments from counterfactual simulations and intention inferences (Exp 2a)

A computational model of responsibility judgments from counterfactual simulations and intention inferences (Exp 2b)

A computational model of responsibility judgments from counterfactual simulations and intention inferences (Exp 2c)

Whodunnit? Inferring what happened from multimodal evidence (Exp 1)

Perception of 3D shape integrates intuitive physics and analysis-by-synthesis (Exp 1)

Modeling the Mistakes of Boundedly Rational Agents Within a Bayesian Theory of Mind (Exp 1)

Inference from social evaluation. (Exp 2b)

Grounding Language about Belief in a Bayesian Theory-of-Mind (Exp 1)

Inferring the Future by Imagining the Past (Exp 2)

Inferring the Future by Imagining the Past (Exp 3)

Predicting pragmatic reasoning in language games (Exp 1)

Inference from social evaluation. (Exp 1)

Inferring the Future by Imagining the Past (Exp 1)

The Pragmatics of Spatial Language (Exp 1)

People can use the placement of objects to infer communicative goals (Exp 2)

Modeling the Mistakes of Boundedly Rational Agents Within a Bayesian Theory of Mind (Exp 2)

The Naïve Utility Calculus as a unified, quantitative framework for action understanding (Exp 3)

What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model (Exp 1)

A counterfactual simulation model of causation by omission (Exp 1)

Pragmatic Instruction Following and Goal Assistance via Cooperative Language-Guided Inverse Planning (Exp 1)

Mental jenga: A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments about physical support (Exp 1)

Towards a computational model of responsibility judgments in sequential human-AI collaboration (Exp 1)

What would have happened? Counterfactuals, hypotheticals, and causal judgements (Exp 2)

Mental jenga: A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments about physical support (Exp 3)

A computational model of responsibility judgments from counterfactual simulations and intention inferences (Exp 1d)

What would have happened? Counterfactuals, hypotheticals, and causal judgements (Exp 1)

Perception of 3D shape integrates intuitive physics and analysis-by-synthesis (Exp 2)

Language-Informed Synthesis of Rational Agent Models for Grounded Theory-of-Mind Reasoning On-The-Fly (Exp 3)

Online Bayesian Goal Inference for Boundedly-Rational Planning Agents (Exp 1)