I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington working with Linda Smith to ask where infant cognition begins and how they get so much more so fast.

Abilities like physical reasoning and detecting common relational structures are present early in infancy. My research program operates at the intersection of developmental psychology and cognitive science to understand the mechanisms of learning and the features of the visual environments that learners can exploit to make broad generalizations from seemingly limited input.

I completed my PhD in Psychology at Northwestern University, where I was awarded a three-year Institute of Education Sciences training grant and worked with Susan Hespos, Dedre Gentner and Lance Rips. I have published my research in Cognition and Psychological Science, and have been invited to give talks at Harvard University and the University of Illinois. Contact me at ema1@iu.edu