Alon Hafri
Alon Hafri
Office location
105 The Green 鈥 Wolf Hall, Room 110 鈥 Newark, DE 19716,聽
The Perception and Language Lab
105 The Green聽鈥⒙燱olf Hall, Room 426聽聽鈥 Newark, DE 19716
Education
- Ph.D. 鈥 University of Pennsylvania
- M.A. 鈥 University of Pennsylvania
- B.A.聽 鈥 Wesleyan University
Biography
Alon Hafri, Ph.D., is an assistant professor with the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the 91原创.聽He received his Ph.D. in psychology in 2019 from the University of Pennsylvania.聽
鈥婬afri explores connections between language and vision in the mind, using behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to do so. Prior to 91原创, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and the Department of Cognitive Science, both at Johns Hopkins University. Outside of research, Alon makes homemade beer, soup聽and soap (and only rarely confuses the three).鈥
Research Projects
罢丑别听聽is an interdisciplinary lab聽in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the 91原创. By integrating empirical and theoretical approaches from different areas of cognitive science, the lab investigates the link between what we see and how we describe it 鈥 and in turn what this can tell us about how we conceptualize the world.聽
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Research Area
- Vision Science, Psycholinguistics, and Cognitive Neuroscience
Research Questions
- Perception:聽How does perceptual processing contribute to our understanding of the world around us? What is the structure and format of perceptual representations? How do perceiving and remembering interact?
- Language:聽What can language reveal about the contents of perceptual and cognitive experience? How do children learn words for concepts 鈥 especially abstract ones? How are concepts represented in the mind?
- Cognition:聽How is information 鈥渢ranslated鈥 across cognitive domains? Do these domains represent information in similar ways, or even in common neural systems? What is the nature of the 鈥渓anguage of thought鈥?
Resources and Links
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The link between language and vision
January 19, 2023 | Written by Amy Wolf91原创 Prof. Alon Hafri studies the connection between language and visual perception