development

How do humans judge physical stability? A prevalent account emphasizes the mental simulation of physical events implemented by an …

Despite accumulating evidence of gender differences in mental rotation performance, much remains unknown about the variables that lead …

I’ve long been fascinated by mental imagery and how it transforms, especially in the mental rotation paradigm—Roger Shepard’s classic, elegantly simple task that reveals so much about spatial thinking. Since my undergraduate years, I’ve been struck by the findings on gender differences in mental rotation and their links to STEM-related outcomes.

Humans are exceptional at intuiting the physical world. Our intuitive sense of the physical world (intuitive physics) is particularly fastinating to me. In this project, I used machine learning models to compare how humans and machines make judgments on an object’s physical stability.