Danaja Rutar
Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies
Sigmund Freud University Vienna - Ljubljana Branch
Faculty of Psychology
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About me
I am an Assistant Professor with joint appointments at the University of Primorska and Sigmund Freud University. I study cognition using behavioural experiments and cognitive models, motivated by philosophical investigations.
Education
Postdoctoral Researcher (2022-2023), Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge
PhD in Cognitive Science (2017-2023), Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen
MSc in Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition (2016-2017), University of Edinburgh
BSc in Psychology (2012-2016), University of Ljubljana
Research interests
Probabilistic Language of Thought – how people (and machines) use probabilistic grammars to generate and comprehend concepts
Cognitive Representations and Structure Learning – how humans acquire information, integrate it into mental models, and update those models as new evidence emerges
Cognitively-Inspired Evaluation of AI – benchmarking AI systems with tasks grounded in human cognition
Cognition Across Minds: Children, Adults & AI – mapping similarities and differences across developmental stages and artificial agents
Methods – conceptual analysis · behavioural experiments · cognitive-computational modelling
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