Alexey Kotov, Ph.D. •  al.kotov@gmail.com  •  senior researcher
GCalendar  •  Courses (in Russian)

Research Interests:

  • Concept formation
  • Language and thought
  • Causal learning and reasoning
  • Theory of mind
  • Word learning
 

Tatyana Kotova, Ph.D. •  tkotova@gmail.com  •  senior researcher
 •  Courses (in Russian)

Research Interests:

  • Theory of mind: roles of executive function, symbolic system and pretended play.
  • Symbolic development: infant gestures, toddlers' symbolic replacement, word acquisition,  preschoolers' number representation.
  • Overimitation effect: intention reading, metacognition,  age limit, mechanical causation bounds.
 

Elizabeth Vlasova, Undergraduate student •  elizabeth.vlasova@gmail.com  •  group coordinator  •  scientific adviser - Kotov Alexey

Research Interests:

  • Early stages of concept formation
  • Shifting of locus attention during concept learning
  • The role of previous knowledge in categorization
 

Marina Anciperova, Ph.D. student •  belkina_po4ta@mail.ru  •  scientific adviser - Kotov Alexey

Research Interests:

  • Theory of mind
  • Neuropsychological foundations of language processing
 

Liana Agrba, Ph.D. student •  liana.agrba@gmail.com  •  scientific adviser - Kotov Alexey

Research Interests:

  • Role of sign in concept formation
  • Category learning in different category structure
  • Concept use
 

Anna Preobrajenskaya, Graduate student •  anja3101@mail.ru  •  scientific adviser - Kotova Tatyana

Research Interests:

  • Overimitation effect: intention reading, memory, mechanical causation bounds
  • Social determination of concept formation
 

Vladislav Zaharov, Graduate student •  zaxaroff.vlad@yandex.ru  •  scientific adviser - Kotov Alexey

Research Interests:

  • Categorization in infancy
  • Role of labels in concept formation