Areas of Study
- Cognitive Science
- Cognitive Psychology
Research Topics
- Concept Learning
- Perceptual Learning
- Knowledge Representation
- Computational Modelling of Mental Processes
- Neural Networks
- Visual Cognition and Pattern Recognition
- Decision Making and Judgment
Our laboratory is currently exploring interactions between perceptual and conceptual learning, methods for learning abstract concepts using computer simulations, the perception of similarity and analogy, and group behavior from a complex systems perspective.
Most of my current research interests involve the representation and learning of concepts. I conduct psychological experiments on people's acquisition of visually presented concepts, interactions between developing concepts, the influence of concepts on perception, and concept specialization/differentiation. I develop computer simulations (often times, neural network models) to model concept formation and the two-way interaction between our conceptual and perceptual systems.
In other lines of research, I study judgment, decision making, and comparison processes involving similarity and analogy. I am also interested in educational applications of cognitive psychology.
Areas: Collective behavior; decision making; group psychology
