From numerical reasoning to intuitive physics, infants exhibit remarkable cognitive abilities shortly after birth. This project uses fMRI and computational methods with infants, young children, and adults to examine the mechanisms underlying early developing cognitive abilities.

The appearance of a single object can vary in an infinite number of ways. Yet, humans rapidly recognize objects even in contexts they have never encountered before. This project uses behavioral, computational, and neural methods to understand how the mind and brain forms invariant representations that support visual object recognition.