Lance Rips

My current research focuses on concepts of individual entities (individual people or dogs or chairs), mathematical concepts (e.g., natural numbers or groups), and types of reasoning related to these concepts (typically causal or mathematical reasoning). For a more complete description of the research going on in this lab, check the "Projects" section of this web site.

Jennifer Asmuth

I'm interested in mathematical reasoning and learning. My current research explores the role of structure in learning new and non-intuitive mathematical concepts. For instance, in studies involving non-Euclidean geometry, I am investigating whether learning occurs more readily from examples that are rich in contextual information, but are therefore complex, or from examples that are simpler but more conceptually 'isolated'. My studies are demonstrating that both the structure and the complexity of mathematical examples are important factors that need to be balanced.

Winston Chang

My work focuses on the mental representation of causal relations. I am investigating the kinds of information we use to infer causal relations and how deal with inconsistencies across these different types of information. My research also includes work in the development of causal concepts.

Andrea Proctor

My work investigates how small differences in the ways that objects and events are described affect readers' interpretations of how story events unfold over time. I look at how the presence or absence of physical boundaries on objects (i.e., whether a mass or count noun is used), and temporal boundaries on events (i.e., the verb's lexical aspect), interact with each other and with story context to influence readers' intuitions about events' temporal profiles.

Eyal Sagi

The meaning of a sentence is more than just the sum of the meaning of its parts. Similarly, parts of the meaning of a text lies in the way the sentences of which it is comprised are organized. My research focuses on understanding how the structural aspects of the text, as well as its context, interact with the processes underlying discourse comprehension.