About Me
My research bridges two research traditions: Cognitive Development and Computational Modeling. By bridging these methods, I hope to understand the structure of children's early causal beliefs, how evidence and prior beliefs interact to affect children's learning, the developmental processes that influence children's belief revision, and the role of social factors (such as learning from others) in guiding learning.
I am currently examining how rational process models (approaches that approximate rational inference) shed insight on learning behavior that may sometimes appear "non-optimal", such as whether children evaluate a sampled subset of possible hypotheses during causal learning and induction.
Recent News:
Scientific American: The educational value of creative disobedience. (July, 2011)