Professor Ullman will be reviewing postdoctoral applications during the coming application cycle. Please apply through Harvard Psychology with this applicant link.
Professor Ullman will be reviewing applications for the coming cycle. Students are welcome to apply through the Harvard Psychology department. Generally speaking, students with a background in psychology, cognitive science, computer science, math, physics, and related fields are encouraged. Also, applicants should be aware that the Psychology Department makes its admissions decisions through a dedicated admissions committee, and students are accepted into the department rather than directly into any specific lab. It is not the case that individual faculty decide on their own whether to take on a student.
The CoCoDev Lab is always on the lookout for undergraduate students to join our lab as research assistants!
Please reach out to Professor Ullman with your CV and why you're interested in pursuing a particular project to be considered for the position.
Additional supervisor: Yichen Li
We are interested in how people represent objects differently when they're tracking them physically (say, to grab them) vs. to recognize them visually. In particular, this project examines the early development of this difference.
Additional supervisor: Dr. Junyi Chu
What does it mean to have fun? We have collected video data of children ages 5–10 years playing with toys under different instructions: Do whatever you want, Try to have fun, Learn as much as you can. Next steps are to categorize children's actions and test specific hypotheses about decision-making and learning. For example, do children pursue more diverse goals when trying to have fun than when trying to learn? How might learning outcomes differ across conditions? What kinds of developmental change might we observe?
Additional supervisor: Dr. Junyi Chu
How do children generate hypotheses for novel problems? We designed some brainteasers for 3–5-year-old children and will run a series of online experiments this Spring. The primary question is whether repeated exposure to such problems can support "out of the box thinking", and how this effect might generalize across different kinds of problem.
