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## Research I've Been Part Of

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I study how people and AI systems learn from experience, represent knowledge and use it to think and act. As AI becomes part of everyday thinking, I investigate how it shapes the understanding, judgement and abilities people develop. I study how people learn from experience and use what they know. Through experiments and computational models, I examine how internal representations develop and change, and how they support memory, concepts, generalisation, reasoning and action. I build models to develop explanations of these processes and derive predictions for behavioural experiments. I pursue part of this work with Dr. Lee at the University of Hong Kong's Speech, Language, and Reading Lab . For AI systems, I study what they learn during training and how it shapes their behaviour.

I use behavioural tests and causal interventions to examine their internal representations, how they use information during a task, and how their computations produce the capabilities we observe. In human-AI interaction, I study how AI's involvement in everyday life shapes people's cognition and behaviour. This includes how people learn, direct their attention, remember and make decisions, and how their abilities develop through interaction. I am also interested in how people adapt AI to their own purposes, and how those purposes change as they use it. I’m interested in how research on human cognition can inspire new approaches to AI, and how building and studying AI can deepen our understanding of the mind. I hope to draw on both to design new ways for people to think, create and act with AI.