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!
Mingi Kang (he/him)
NSF Fellow | 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.
William Warlick (he/him)
NSF Fellow | Senior | CS and Philosophy Major
William has a keen interest in analyzing human behavior through quantitative methods and building responsive web applications. He is currently implementing experiments investigating how individuals' reason and act in relation to others mental states. Outside of the lab, he is a hurdler on the Bowdoin track team and a member of the Peucinian Society. He cherishes deep conversations, being out in nature, and good company.
alumni
- Stephanie Chun (she/her; Independent Study | Senior | Neuroscience major)
- worked on co-writing a paper introduction for a PSYC 2740 class project on language processing of state changes
- 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
- Ulemj Munkhtur (she/her; Independent Study | Sophomore | CS major)
- worked on investigating how people attend to different lexical sources during memory search
- 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
- presented a poster at Psychonomics 2023!
- Simon Thomas(he/they; Research Assistant | Junior | Physics-CS major)
- developed a web interface to analyze helping games
- 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
- Carrie Zou(she/her; Independent Study | Junior | Psych-Econ major)
- worked on designing an experiment to invesigate how helpers perform goal inference during ambiguous situations
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