The Social Cognition Lab is interested in the development and evolution of social intelligence using both human and non-human primate models. Our work specifically focuses on a cornerstone of human intelligence: cultural learning.
Through collaborations with local organizations such as the National Building Museum and Children’s National Medical Center as well as various international partners, we seek to identify the various cognitive, neural and behavioral skills that underlie different forms of social learning. Our ultimate goal is to better understand which of these features are distinctive in our species and how they make cultural learning possible.