Associate Professor
Co-Director, Graduate Specialization in Cognitive Science
About Me:
My research is focused on perception, pain, affect, the emotions, and motivation. Much of my work has focused on the sense of touch and haptic exploration. I’m especially interested in the relationship between bodily awareness and our experience of the world, and in understanding how touch connects and interacts with the other senses. More recently, I’ve been focusing on the relationship between emotions and perception, and especially on an account of motivating sensory states like itch, hunger, thirst, tiredness, vertigo, nausea, and the like. You can read more about my research here.