Risultati di ricerca
7. 2023. Teachers recruit mentalizing regions to represent learners’ beliefs. N Vélez, AM Chen, T Burke, FA Cushman, SJ Gershman. PNAS 120 (22) , 2023. 6. 2023. Preschoolers use minimal statistical information about social groups to infer the preferences and group membership of individuals.
Competence & Division of Labor. Successful collaboration requires that we understand what we can do, what others can do, and how we complement each other. How do we learn about our own and other people’s competence, and how do we use this understanding to divide labor? Collaboration in Communities.
How do humans combine their limited knowledge and resources into something greater than the sum of its parts? My lab studies the cognitive capacities and community dynamics that make human collaboration possible. We approach collaboration at two levels of analysis.
Natalia Velez. Department of Psychology Princeton, NJ 08540. Email: nvelez@princeton.edu Web: nataliavelez.org.
Lab Director. Natalia Vélez, Ph.D. nvelez@princeton.edu. CV. I am interested in how humans collaborate. I approach this question at two levels of analysis. Zooming in, I investigate the individual cognitive capacities that enable us to navigate the challenges of collaboration.
Paths to PhD Workshop, Writing the personal statement. Organized and led workshops for 25-30 local students from underrepresented groups interested in pursuing a PhD in psychology. Matched each attendee to a current PhD student who provided one-on-one feedback on their personal statement. 2015{2017.
Natalia Vélez. Postdoctoral Researcher. E-mail: nvelez@fas.harvard.edu. I am interested in how human social cognition supports effective teaching and collaboration. My research approaches these questions using a combination of behavioral experiments with children and adults, computational cognitive models, and neuroimaging.
