Lisa Feigenson
Lisa Feigenson is co-director of the Johns Hopkins University Laboratory for Child Development. Her research seeks to understand the cognitive primitives that are available throughout the lifespan, as well as changes in children’s thinking with maturation and experience. She uses primarily behavioral methods to study cognitive abilities in infants, children, and adults.
Current research in Feigenson’s lab investigates the development of numerical abilities—asking what factors determine children’s successes (or struggles) with mathematical thinking, the development of working memory—asking what can be remembered and what is forgotten throughout early development, and the nature of early learning—asking how expectations and surprise shape when and what we learn.
Feigenson is the recipient of the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences, the Boyd McCandless Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association, and a Scholar Award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation. Her work has appeared in Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Current research in Feigenson’s lab investigates the development of numerical abilities—asking what factors determine children’s successes (or struggles) with mathematical thinking, the development of working memory—asking what can be remembered and what is forgotten throughout early development, and the nature of early learning—asking how expectations and surprise shape when and what we learn.
Feigenson is the recipient of the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences, the Boyd McCandless Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association, and a Scholar Award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation. Her work has appeared in Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.