Dr. Alexander Petrov
Associate Professor, Cognitive Psychology · College of Arts and Sciences · Ohio State University
⭐ Our lab is recruiting new members. There is a modeling track and an experimental track. People with diverse academic backgrounds – in psychology, computer science, philosophy, and other majors – are welcome. Please visit the Visual Cognition Lab page for details on how to get involved.
Research interests
Relational processing and its pivotal role in human cognition. In particular, I have a strong interest in analogy making that dates all the way back to my Ph.D. dissertation in 1998. A guiding hypothesis is that the visual system performs more sophisticated relational processing than it’s usually given credit for. Notably, we see relational roles in visual events – who does what to whom. Relational processing must be studied in computational terms and requires the coordinated resources of a general-purpose cognitive architecture. Methodologically, research in my lab involves a combination of behavioral and psychophysical experimentation, mathematical and computational modeling, and philosophical reflection.
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