| Area of Specialty:
Developmental |
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| My research program explores
cognition from a developmental and evolutionary
perspective. I examine the origins of our
cognitive capacities, focusing primarily
on our abilities to distinguish and reason
about animate and inanimate objects, to interpret
the behavior and infer the mental states
of others, and to recognize and use tools
and physical representations of space. Each
is examined in a comparative manner, studying
infants, young children, and non-human primates.
The research thus relies upon both developmental
and comparative psychology theory to form
and test hypotheses about these abilities. |
