people
members | alumni | collaborators
lab members
Abhilasha Kumar (she/her)
Principal Investigator | website | CV
Abhilasha is a computational cognitive scientist who is fascinated by how humans learn the meaning of words and communicate with each other. She enjoys teaching statistics, coding, and interdisciplinary classes on AI & cognition. Outside of work, Abhilasha likes to play board games and tennis, and try new recipes and restaurants in Portland!
Stephanie Chun (she/her)
Independent Study | Senior | Neuroscience major
Stephanie is interested in how people help one another effectively and why we engage in helping behavior. Currently, she is reviewing literature on helping and prosocial behavior in humans. Outside of lab, Stephanie is a captain of the Women's Cross-Country team and Women's Track and Field team and is involved in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. In her free time, Stephanie enjoys crochet, puzzles, and listening to music.
Mingi Kang (he/him)
Research Assistant | Sophomore | CS-Math major
Mingi is interested in how people search through concepts within their memory. Currently, he is working on the Cochlear Project that explores the impact of cochlear implants on memory search. Outside of the lab, Mingi works at Bowdoin Information Technology. In his free time, he loves to cook and play piano.
Ulemj Munkhtur (she/her)
Independent Study | Sophomore
Ulemj is interested in the influence of various lexical sources (semantic and phonological) on memory search. Currently, she is working on ​investigating task-discrepant clustering in verbal fluency tests. Outside of the lab, Ulemj is a Reed House leader and an active member of the Student Activities Funding Committee. She loves horse riding, motorcycle riding, and playing poker. She is currently learning how to play the drums.
Simon Thomas (he/him)
Research Assistant | Junior | Physics-CS major
Simon is working on developing a website which displays the results of a block-based collaboration game, with hopes to develop an interactive tool. Outside of the lab, Simon works at the rock-climbing wall, is a member of the club alpine ski team, and enjoys cooking in his free time.
Carrie Zou (she/hers)
Independent Study | Junior | Psych-Econ major
Carrie is interested in mechanisms underlying collaboration and why people help each other. Currently, she is working on a literature review on helping and collaboration in crossword solving. Outside of lab, Carrie is a member of Obvious dance club. In her free time, she enjoys baking, movies, and photography.
alumni
- Kavya Doraswamy (she/her; Independent Study | Junior | Psych-CS major)
- worked on investigating how people attend to different lexical sources during memory search
- Thomas Mazzuchi (he/him; Honors | Senior | Psych-Math major)
- now a research technician at Morality Lab, Boston College
- worked on project investigating how people select words in communicative contexts
- Jon Sides (he/they; Independent Study | Junior | Psych major)
- conducted and analyzed experiment data based on a PSYC 2740 class project on language processing of state changes
- presenting a poster at Psychonomics 2023!
- Reed Warburton (he/him; Independent Study | Senior | Psych-Bio major)
- worked on designing an experiment to investigate clustering and switching behavior
- Nancy Xing (she/her; Research Assistant | Junior | CS major)
- worked on designing forager and models of communication
collaborators
- David Balota, WashU
- Simon De Deyne, University of Melbourne
- Ketika Garg, University of California, Merced
- Sudheendra Hangal, Stanford & Ashoka
- Robert Hawkins, Princeton
- Michael Jones, Indiana University
- Geoff Maddox, Rhodes College
- Peter Millar, WashU
- David Pisoni, Indiana University
- Michele Scaltritti, University of Padova
- Mark Steyvers, UC Irvine
- Allyson Rosen, Stanford