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...
Jan 2, 2019 | Collaborators, Ecology, Education, Grant, Intuitive Biology, John Coley, Presentations, Uncategorized
At the end of the Fall 2018 semester, Dr. Coley made a whirlwind visit to Norway, where he gave a talk on CORE Lab research on Intuitive Biological Thinking and Science Education, spend many enjoyable hours working with good friend and CORE Lab collaborator Dr. Imac...
Sep 18, 2018 | Anthropomorphism, Intuitive Biology
Fourth year graduate student, Nicole Betz, has been collecting data for an exciting study regarding anthropocentrism in Omnivores and Vegetarians. Anthropocentrism is the tendency to reason about animals by analogy to humans, or assigning human characteristics and...
Aug 13, 2018 | Collaborators, Ecology, Intuitive Biology, Science Education
Throughout this summer, the CORE Lab had the privilege of working in collaboration with the Russell J. Call Children’s Center at Northeastern University to interview children for a new project dealing with intuitive ecological learning! Read more about the...
Aug 2, 2018 | essentialism, Intuitive Biology, Presentations
Last week the lab had the privilege of hearing fourth year graduate student from Tufts University, Rebecca Lange. During the lab’s weekly meeting, Rebecca delighted us with an amazing presentation on her work regarding the development of reasoning about the social...