Current Researchers

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Professor
How do we learn to communicate using language? I study children's language learning and how it interacts with their developing understanding of the social world. I use behavioral experiments, computational tools, and novel measurement methods like large-scale web-based studies, eye-tracking, and…
Associate Professor

I am broadly interested in the human ability to reason about others, learn from others, and inform others in communicative contexts. How do we construct rich, abstract theories about how the world works from our everyday experiences that often involve other people, and how do we communicate what…

Researchers

Doctoral Student, Psychology

Reasoning about knowledge is both a ubiquitous and necessary part of human life. Without much effort, we can estimate how much others know, determine how valuable knowledge is, and efficiently transmit and obtain it ourselves. I study the way children think about knowledge and information to…

Research Coordinator, Language and Cognition Lab

Grace is a research coordinator of Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford. I graduated from UC Berkeley where I completed my BA in philosophy and a minor in early childhood development and learning science. I am broadly interested in expanding my understanding of different approaches in the…

Research Assistant, Language and Cognition Lab

I graduated from Indiana University in 2022 with a B.S. in Psychology and Informatics, and I am now pursuing my M.S. in Symbolic Systems at Stanford. Coming from a background in social psychology, I hope to learn more about how both children learn, reason, and communicate about our social world…

Lab Manager, Language and Cognition Lab

Bobby is the current lab manager of Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford. He received his B.S. in Symbolic Systems with a focus in Cognitive Science from Stanford University where he was a research assistant in the Social Learning Lab. He is interested in variability in our developmental…

Doctoral Student, Psychology

Rondeline received her B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University in 2017 before completing an NIH-funded research project at The Ohio State University. She is interested in the impact of auditory noise on young children's processing efficiency and language development.

Doctoral Student, Psychology

Humans are active learners and teachers - we integrate information from our environment, reason over it, and transmit it to others. I am interested in the processes and representations that enable this ability and their foundations in development. I hope to use a wide variety of methods to…