Research
Visual event perception
- spatiotemporal perceptual organization
- motion, time and causal perception
Shape perception
- perception of the shapes of holes
- figure/ground organization; amodal completion of surfaces
Mind/social perception
- minds of other agents including animals, machines, and dead people
- perception of social information (e.g., emotion, cuteness, animacy, and age) from faces and bodies
- anthropomorphism of animals and artificial entities
Cognition and action
- social Simon effect
- conceptual metaphors; action compatibility effects
Perception and cognition in infants and children
- children's perception of holes (working with Dr. Melissa Kibbe)
- children's theory of other minds (working with Dr. Sujin Yang)