About Me

I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. I work with Roman Feiman in the Brown Language and Thought Lab.

I am interested in how children develop the ability to think with the logical concepts that we use to reason about our everyday lives, and how the process of learning a language might affect that development. In particular, my current focus is on how children learn the concept of negation. To explore these questions, I develop in-person and virtual logic games to play with children and toddlers, and I analyze large-scale cross-linguistic corpora of children's language production. I hope to contribute to our understanding of how concepts come to exist in the human mind, and how the environments that children find themselves in contribute to and shape this process.