Nov 18, 2019 | Alumni, Collaborators, Conferences, Education, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, essentialism, Facial recognition, Intuitive Biology, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Michal Fux
Several members of the CORE Lab recently travelled to Louisville, Kentucky, to present posters at the Cognitive Development Society’s biennial conference. Dr. Coley presented a poster with Dr. Imac Zambrana of the University of Oslo about preschoolers’ free play with...
Aug 12, 2019 | Collaborators, Conferences, Education, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Intuitive Biology, John Coley, Michal Fux, Nicole Betz, Presentations, Science Education
Members of the CORE Lab recently presented at the International Conference on Learning held in Belfast, Northern Ireland. As a group, Dr. John Coley, Dr. Michal Fux, Dr. Nicole Betz, and Emily Dahlgaard Thor from the CORE Lab, along with Lauren Swiney of Warwick...
Jun 20, 2019 | Collaborators, Conferences, Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Jess Leffers, John Coley, Michal Fux, Nicole Betz, Science Education, Yian Xu
June 6-9 , members of the CORE Lab presented at SARMAC XIII (the meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition) that took place in Cape Cod. Their symposium, “Exploring the Role of Intuitive Beliefs in the Way People Learn About and Understand...
May 16, 2019 | Articles about the lab, Collaborators, Education, Emily Dahlgaard Thor
This summer, the CORE Lab has begun an exciting new project with the Center for Translational Science Education at Tufts Medical School. The team at the CTSE strives to mitigate the knowledge gap between science researchers and teachers who are educating high school...
May 9, 2019 | Emily Dahlgaard Thor
Last week, May 2nd, the CORE lab’s Emily Dahlgaard Thor, a 2nd year doctoral student was awarded her Masters Degree in Psychology. Congratulations to Emily and Northeastern’s other graduates with Masters Degrees in Psychology! We can’t wait to see what Emily continues...
Mar 15, 2019 | Emily Dahlgaard Thor, Presentations, Psychology Department, Science Education
Today, Emily presented her Master’s thesis to the psychology department, during the annual Master’s Convention. Her talk was on the role intuitive language plays in the comprehension of science readings. She hopes to use this research to inform science writers on how...