Fei Xu
Title
Professor
Department
Dept of Psychology
Faculty URL
Research Group
Email
Phone
510-642-3344
Research Expertise and Interest
conceptual development, developmental psychology, cognitive development, language development, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, statistical learning and statistical inference, psychology and philosophy, computational models of cognitive development
Research Description
In Fei Xu's lab, research focuses on how children acquire knowledge rapidly and accurately with limited amounts of evidence. Xu has done extensive research on early language development (word learning in particular) and infant cognition (e.g., object concept, kind concepts, number representations, probabilistic reasoning, physical and psychological reasoning), and social cognition (e.g., preferences, intentionality). They are interested in inductive learning from statistical information in infants and children.
In the News
March 12, 2012
Scientists tap the genius of babies and youngsters to make computers smarter
UC Berkeley scientists are tapping the cognitive smarts of babies, toddlers and preschoolers to program computers to think more like humans.