Lab news archive

• Congratulations to Mahwish Kittur for receiving a summer undergraduate research fellowship! (March 2025)

• Sami was honored to receive an Undergraduate Teaching Award for teaching and mentorship in and out of the classroom. (March 2025)

• Our paper Children’s understanding of topological relations was published in Open Mind. (March 2025)

• Congratulations to outstanding undergraduate students Gabe Waterhouse and Ashna Shah for receiving National Science Foundation Undergraduate Travel Grants to attend the Vision Sciences Society meeting in May 2025! (February 2025)

• Our paper Perceiving topological relations was published in Psychological Science. (February 2025)

• Our paper Random behavior is stable across tasks and time is forthcoming in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. (February 2025)

• On behalf of the lab, Sami received a Junior Faculty Development Award, which will help to support the many phenomenal undergraduate researchers in the lab. (January 2025)

• Our paper An illusion of time caused by repeated experience is forthcoming in Psychological Science. (January 2025)

• Our paper Seven reasons to (still) doubt the existence of number adaptation was published in Cognition. This paper is a rebuttal to two replies on the number adaptation paper we published back in May. (September 2024)

• Our paper Size adaptation: Do you know it when you see it? was published in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. (July 2024)

• Our paper Event representation at the scale of ordinary experience was published in Cognition. (June 2024)

• Our paper Intuitive network topology was published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. (June 2024)

• Our paper Number adaptation: A critical look was published in Cognition, followed by a debate. (May 2024)

• Our paper Oblique warping: A general distortion of spatial perception was published in Cognition. (April 2024)