Cognition Computation and Development Lab

at the University of Edinburgh

Our
Team

  • Zach Horne

    Lecturer in Psychology
    Papers
    Open Science Framework

  • Alex Doumas

    Senior Lecturer in Psychology
    Papers

  • Artemis Deligianni

    PhD student in natural language processing

  • Ivan Vegner

    PhD student in natural language processing

  • Sydelle de Souza

    PhD student in natural language processing
    Website

  • Mert Kobas

    PhD student in developmental psychology
    New York University

  • Trisevgeni Papakonstantinou

    PhD student in experimental psychology
    University College London

  • Anki Deo

    Research assistant

Research

  • Explanatory reasoning and scientific explanation

    We study how novices and practicing scientists explain the unfamiliar to examine the cognitive constraints on scientific explanation.

  • Analogical reasoning and arguments by analogy

    People make arguments by analogy in the form of memes, but also in legal and philosophical reasoning. We investigate how people construct these arguments, including developing computational models of this cognitive capacity.

  • Attitude change outside the lab

    We use large scale social media data to understand the mechanisms of persuasion in more naturalistic settings.

  • Relational reasoning in adults and children

    This work uses symbolic neural network models and Bayesian computational modeling to understand the computational mechanisms of cognitive development.

Collaborators

  • Chiara Bonacchi

    Chancellor's Fellow in Heritage, Text and Data Mining and Senior Lecturer in Edinburgh Futures Institute

  • Jeff Bowers

    Professor of Psychology
    University of Bristol

  • Andrei Cimpian

    Professor of Psychology
    New York University

  • Mike Dougherty

    Professor of Psychology
    University of Maryland

  • Micah Goldwater

    Senior Lecturer in Psychology
    University of Sydney

  • John Hummel

    Professor of Psychology
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Emily Line

    PhD student in Quantitative Psychology
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Andrea Martin

    Max Planck Research Group Leader
    Language and Computation in Neural Systems (LaCNS)
    MPI

  • Melis Muradoglu

    Postdoctoral research fellow in Psychology
    Stanford University

  • N. Angel Pinillos

    Associate Professor of Philosophy
    Arizona State University

  • Hunter Priniski

    PhD student in Cognitive Psychology
    UCLA

  • Guillermo Puebla

    Research Scientist
    Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial

  • Josh Rottman

    Associate Professor of Psychology
    Franklin & Marshall College

  • Prachi Solanki

    Statistician at University of Illinois, Chicago