Understanding of objects in social contexts.
Children can represent information about objects early in development. They can learn their names, their quantity, their current state. However, often objects are acted upon by people, opening up new ways for objects to be represented. One line of my research investigates how objects can be represented, not just by their own properties, but the qualities that other people bestow onto them (i.e., their own preferences and beliefs).
Alexis Smith-Flores
PhD student in Experimental Psychology
My research interests include infant social cognition, emotion reasoning, and object representation.
