BIOGRAPHY
I study how people think in the face of uncertainty. My goal is to understand the flexibility of cognition - how people are able to think effectively in entirely new situations with little prior knowledge.
My working hypothesis is that people do this by combining general logic-like rules with sophisticated memories. My main approach is to develop mathematical theories for explaining activities like reasoning, categorization, and judgments of probability. I test these theories in my lab by examining people's ability to answer simple questions and name things.
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