Our Team
Steven Frankland
In the Spring of 2024, I began as an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Dartmouth College. Prior to starting at Dartmouth, I was a post-doc working with Jon Cohen and others at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, pursuing computational models of memory, generalization, and relational reasoning. Prior to that, I received my PhD from Harvard, with Josh Greene. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study how the brain dynamically encodes structure (who did what to whom) to make sense of a sentence.
Principle Investigator
Thomas Redford
Thomas is interested in the representational structure of memory and finding information theoretic theories, particularly Rate Distortion Theory, to explain cognitive function. Thomas also enjoys woodcarving and being in the outdoors.
Postdoc
PostdocBettina Bustos
Society of Fellows Postdoc interested in how task representations are learned, stored, and flexibly used. Bettina likes thinking about the costs of cognitive control and how they can help determine what kinds of representations are worth learning.
Lab ManagerKristin Dang
Kristin is interested in using behavioral methods to understand how the mind processes and represents abstract, conceptual information. In her free time, she likes to cook, watch Masterchef, and listen to music.
Alumni
Daniel Carstensen (Undergraduate & Post Bacc Research Assistant) - PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania
Idil Sahin (Undergraduate Research Assistant) - Lab Manager at Stanford University
Research AssistantChristopher Diak
Chris is interested in cognitive architecture and compositionality and their application to the study of philosophy, religion, machine learning, and organizational behavior. How are thoughts composed and how does that process shape what can be thought?