Area of research
Developmental and Educational Psychology · Statistics and Probability
Research interest
Research focused on Indigenous and Sentence, with related work in Numeracy, Foraging, Sensitivity (control systems). Notable publications include 'Rational integration of noisy evidence and prior semantic expectations in sentence interpretation', 'Info/information theory: Speakers choose shorter words in predictive contexts', and 'The logical primitives of thought: Empirical foundations for compositional cognitive models'.
No clear evidence for an innate left-to-right mental number line
Spatial concepts of number, size, and time in an indigenous culture
The evolution of quantitative sensitivity
The Natural Stories corpus: a reading-time corpus of English texts containing rare syntactic constructions
Universal and uniquely human factors in spontaneous number perception
The logical primitives of thought: Empirical foundations for compositional cognitive models.
Children's learning of number words in an indigenous farming‐foraging group
Rational integration of noisy evidence and prior semantic expectations in sentence interpretation
Info/information theory: Speakers choose shorter words in predictive contexts