I study infants’ and children’s precocious knowledge about the world, from the objects and places in it to the people and animals that act on those objects and move through those places. I ask how that knowledge derives from our evolutionary inheritance and how it forms the basis of uniquely human cultural and intellectual achievements. In doing so, I use my expertise in human common sense to improve machine common sense, creating AI that will better understand us and that we can better understand.
My lab primarily uses cognitive, developmental, and computational approaches to gain insight into the origin and development of human cognition. I have active collaborations with economists, mathematicians, neuroscientists, educators, and humanists and research partnerships with The National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath), Lookit (the online infant and child lab), and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
I study infants’ and children’s precocious knowledge about the world, from the objects and places in it to the people and animals that act on those objects and move through those places. I ask how that knowledge derives from our evolutionary inheritance and how it forms the basis of uniquely human cultural and intellectual achievements. In doing so, I use my expertise in human commonsense to improve machine commonsense, creating AI that will better understand us and that we can better understand.
My lab primarily uses cognitive, developmental, and computational approaches to gain insight into the origin and development of human cognition. I have active collaborations with economists, mathematicians, neuroscientists, educators, and humanists and research partnerships with The National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath), Lookit (the online infant and child lab), and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
I study infants’ and children’s precocious knowledge about the world, from the objects and places in it to the people and animals that act on those objects and move through those places. I ask how that knowledge derives from our evolutionary inheritance and how it forms the basis of uniquely human cultural and intellectual achievements. In doing so, I use my expertise in human commonsense to improve machine commonsense, creating AI that will better understand us and that we can better understand.
My lab primarily uses cognitive, developmental, and computational approaches to gain insight into the origin and development of human cognition. I have active collaborations with economists, mathematicians, neuroscientists, educators, and humanists and research partnerships with The National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath), Lookit (the online infant and child lab), and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
I study infants’ and children’s precocious knowledge about the world, from the objects and places in it to the people and animals that act on those objects and move through those places. I ask how that knowledge derives from our evolutionary inheritance and how it forms the basis of uniquely human cultural and intellectual achievements. In doing so, I use my expertise in human commonsense to improve machine commonsense, creating AI that will better understand us and that we can better understand.
My lab primarily uses cognitive, developmental, and computational approaches to gain insight into the origin and development of human cognition. I have active collaborations with economists, mathematicians, neuroscientists, educators, and humanists and research partnerships with The National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath), Lookit (the online infant and child lab), and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
