PERCEPTION

COGNITION &

DEVELOPMENT

LAB @ CHAPEL HILL

The Perception, Cognition, and Development Lab @ Chapel Hill investigates how we see, how we think, how we remember — pretty much every aspect of our day-to-day cognitive experience. We will be housed within the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. We officially open on July 1st, 2024.

Current projects

Intuitive Topology

In a series of recent projects, we explore how both adults and children reason about — and perceive — topological relations.

Visual adaptation

Have you ever stared at a colorful image, and then, when looking at an empty wall after, seen a colorful visual aftereffect? That’s a kind of visual adaptation. In a series of papers, we examine what visual adaptation is, and what it can and cannot tell us about visual representation.

The format(s) of visuospatial representation

How do we represent where things are? What is the code of spatial representation in the mind?

Remembering when

In our every day lives, we have to remember not only what happens, but when those things happen. With everything going on around us at all times, how do we remember when things were?