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Liz Lapidow

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

I investigate how learners seek to figure out the world around them by taking actions and considering possibilities. My research examines how children (and adults) learn and reason about causal systems and how learners make decisions during exploration. By integrating cognitive development with ideas from philosophy and computational modeling, I aim to better understand the spontaneous (and sometimes puzzling) behavior of human learners."

Effie Pereira

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

My research program studies the moment-to-moment ebbs and flows and fluctuations in cognitive processes over time to better understand the temporal dynamics of human cognition. By bridging together behavioural, psychophysiological, computational, and neuroimaging methods, I have studied temporal dynamics within attentional processes to uncover aspects of internal attention, social attention, and embedded attention. Over the years, my work has revealed that seemingly random variations in attentional patterns over time are in fact quite predictable and highly specific to each individual, advancing our fundamental understanding of the intrinsic and internal regularities that govern individual behaviour.

Maksim Rudnev

Research Associate

Research Interests

I am a quantitative social scientist interested in human values and social perception, their cultural variability, and data science informed by psychometrics. I have an MA in Psychology, a PhD in Sociology, and substantial training in statistics and psychometrics. I have lived and worked in three countries and have taught methods at various levels. I am looking into the determinants of values and worldviews across individuals in various countries and cultures. I believe this mystery can be unravelled through various scientific methods, which I take very seriously. This belief shapes my dual-focused research interest: understanding the substance of cultural (in)variability and the methods intrinsically linked to cross-cultural inference.