Rank:
Associate Professor
Contact information
Building:
Vienna, Quellenstrasse 51
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Research Interests:
My research focuses on how children and adults actively search for information when making decisions, drawing causal inferences and solving categorization tasks. Search strategies, as any other kind of strategies, are not always effective, because their usefulness and performance depends on the characteristics of the problem presented. In this sense, I am interested in how adaptive children and adults’ search for information strategies are, how sensitive and responsive they are to the structure of the tasks. I am especially interested in how actively searching for information, being able to generate the information we are interested in and to focus on what we consider most relevant, can impact our learning, understanding and explanations.
Qualification
Ph.D. in Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Ph.D. in Cognitive Science, University of Siena, Italy
M.A. in Philosophy, Decision Making and Philosophy of Science, University of Pisa, Italy