The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: David Sobel

I study how children represent and learn new pieces of causal knowledge and come to acquire their "folk" or commonsense understanding of the world.

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I am an Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and Psychology in the CLPS Department at Brown University. I study children's cognitive development, particularly causal reasoning and theory of mind. I am interested in the cognitive mechanisms children use to acquire their commonsense understanding of the world. Some of the questions we ask in the lab are how do children acquire causal knowledge and make causal inferences; what is the interaction between intentionality and discovery in causal learning; how do children learn from others; and how do children conceptualize fiction and fantasy worlds.

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DAVID SOBEL, Ph.D. in Psychology
Associate Professor
Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences
Phone: +1 401 863 3038
E-mail: David_Sobel_1@Brown.EDU

David Sobel's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/David_Sobel

On The Web:
Causality and Mind Lab

Brown collaborators:

Collaborators at other institutions:
Emily Bushnell, Tufts University
Alison Gopnik, University of California at Berkeley
Tom Griffiths, University of California at Berkeley
Natasha Kirkham, Birkbeck College
Tamar Kushnir, Cornell University
Angeline Lillard, University of Virginia
Laura Schulz, MIT
Jessica Sommerville, University of Washington
Joshua Tenenbaum, MIT
Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Rutgers University

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