PhD Student, Psychology (Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience)
UMass Amherst
Advisor: Benjamin Pitt
Laboratory manager at UW-Madison.
I'm interested in children's conceptual development, particularly how they come to understand numerical concepts and principles. I currently work as a lab manager in the Cognitive Origins Lab (Stephen Ferrigno) at UW-Madison. In Fall 2026, I will be joining the Cognitive Contruction Lab (Ben Pitt) at UMass Amherst as a PhD student.
curriculum vitae
2026 –
2021 – 2025
BS, Psychology & Anthropology
UW-Madison
2026 –
Teaching Associate
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, UMass Amherst
Courses: PSYCH 337, Writing in Psychological and Brain Sciences
2025 – 2026
Laboratory Manager
Cognitive Origins Lab, UW-Madison
PI: Stephen Ferrigno
2023 – 2025
Research Assistant
Cognitive Origins Lab, UW-Madison
PI: Stephen Ferrigno
2024 – 2025
Research Assistant
DeLuca Biochemistry Lab, UW-Madison
PIs: Hector DeLuca, Lori Plum
Other experience includes caring for monkeys, mice, and rats; paperboard manufacturing (read: I worked in a cardboard box factory); pizza artistry; pre-K swim coaching; waterslide supervision; and extensive babysitting.
projects
One-to-one numerical reasoning in children and monkeys
2026
We tested monkeys and children and found that cardinal principle knowledge is neither necessary nor sufficient to use one-to-one correspondence cues to make precise quantity discriminations. This challenges most existing accounts of how children learn the relationship between one-to-one correspondence and numerical equality.
You can find our Cognitive Development Society poster here.
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