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Judith Fan

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Judith Ellen Fan

Courtesy Assistant Professor

jefan@stanford.edu

- Cognitive Tools Lab

Biography

I direct the Cognitive Tools Lab (https://cogtoolslab.github.io/) at Stanford University. Our lab aims to reverse engineer the human cognitive toolkit — in particular, how people use physical representations of thought to learn, communicate, and solve problems. Towards this end, we use a combination of approaches from cognitive science, computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

Other Titles

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Research Interests

Assessment, Testing and Measurement | Brain and Learning Sciences | Data Sciences | Higher Education | Psychology | Technology and Education

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Recent Publications

Long, B., Fan, J. E., Huey, H., Chai, Z., & Frank, M. C. (2024). Parallel developmental changes in children's production and recognition of line drawings of visual concepts. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1191.

McCarthy, W. P., Kirsh, D., & Fan, J. E. (2023). Consistency and Variation in Reasoning About Physical Assembly. Cognitive Science, 47(12), e13397.

Holt, S., Fan, J. E., & Barner, D. (2023). Creating ad hoc graphical representations of number. Cognition, 242, 105665.

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