Welcome

We study how human cognitive architecture supports reasoning, decision making, and problem solving using mathematical analysis, computational modeling, and behavioral experiments.

More specifically, we investigate the formal cognitive processes that allow people to represent, acquire, store, retrieve, and use knowledge, particularly when facing novel or open‑ended problems, and how metamemory, metacognition, motivation, and emotion influence such knowledge‑facing processes.

To address these questions, we develop and test computational cognitive models grounded in measurement theory, rational analysis, cognitive architectures, and modern dual‑process and dual‑representation theories of cognition.

We are located in the Department of Psychology at the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto.