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Judith Fan

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Judith Ellen Fan

Courtesy Assistant Professor

jefan@stanford.edu

- Cognitive Tools Lab

Biography

I direct the Cognitive Tools Lab (https://cogtoolslab.github.io/) at Stanford University. Our lab aims to reverse engineer the human cognitive toolkit — in particular, how people use physical representations of thought to learn, communicate, and solve problems. Towards this end, we use a combination of approaches from cognitive science, computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

Other Titles

Assistant Professor, Psychology
Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Graduate School of Education
Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Computer Science

Research Interests

Assessment, Testing and Measurement | Brain and Learning Sciences | Data Sciences | Higher Education | Psychology | Technology and Education

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Recent Publications

Long, B., Fan, J. E., Huey, H., Chai, Z., & Frank, M. C. (2024). Parallel developmental changes in children's production and recognition of line drawings of visual concepts. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1191.

McCarthy, W. P., Kirsh, D., & Fan, J. E. (2023). Consistency and Variation in Reasoning About Physical Assembly. Cognitive Science, 47(12), e13397.

Holt, S., Fan, J. E., & Barner, D. (2023). Creating ad hoc graphical representations of number. Cognition, 242, 105665.

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