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