My research interests center on the memory, learning, and decision processes which allow us to carry out intelligent and adaptive behaviors. I am particularly interested in how people uncover important and useful regularities about the environment through experience. For example, how do we all come to agree on a similar idea of the concept "mammal"? How do our learning experiences shape our perception of the world around us? How do we acquire new skills and behaviors? The goal of my research is to enrich our understanding of the mechanisms which support these diverse behaviors, how they might develop and change over the course of our lives, and how they might be impacted by disease or brain damage
