Principal Investigator
My research focuses on the structure and origin of knowledge, guided by perspectives and methods from cognitive science, cognitive development, and computational modeling. By combining these, I hope to better understand the form and development of the basic commonsense reasoning that guides our interaction with the world and the people in it.
Postdoc at Harvard Psychology and Harvard Graduate School of Education
Dr. Bass scrutinizes the role of social information in shaping and constraining children's inferences through empirical work with children and adults, and with computational models that formally capture these cognitive processes.
Postdoc at Harvard Psychology and MIT BCS
Dr. Qian is interested in questions about how people think, interact, and communicate. He combines behavioral experiments and computational models to study language and cognition. Dr. Qian's current research seeks to understand the intentional use of ambiguity in social life.
Postdoc at Harvard Psychology
Dr. Wu studies how we make sense of each other's actions: how people make social inferences and attributions, including assigning responsibility, reasoning about intentions, and mentally simulating how things could have turned out otherwise. She combines behavioral experiments with theory-driven computational modeling, and also works on benchmarking social and causal reasoning in AI systems.
She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University, advised by Tobi Gerstenberg, and studied math, computer science, and cognitive science at MIT.
4th-Year Ph.D. Student
Yingqiao is interested in utilizing the methods from mathematics, statistics, and computational modeling to investigate the topics in causal reasoning and intuitive physics.
4th-Year Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
Sonia is interested in bridging the fields of cognitive science, natural language processing, and human-AI interaction to advance our understanding of human-machine communication and design systems that better serve humans' goals and intentions.
2nd-Year Ph.D. Student
Hanbei is interested in intuitive physics, reasoning about events, time perception, and imagination.
1st-Year Ph.D. Student, co-advised with Ashley Thomas
Min studies how young humans represent and understand close relationships, including early concepts of love, obligations, and commitments such as promises: how abstract knowledge applies to particular relationships, how people decide what they owe others and to whom, and whether norms guide behavior in close relationships.
Lab Manager
Chief Cuddles Officer at the CoCoDev joint lab meetings
Yuki is interested in high-fiving and cuddling with the CoCoDev Lab members!
