Dr. Abhilasha A. Kumar (Principal Investigator) is computational cognitive scientist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Bowdoin College in Maine, where she leads the Lexicon Lab. She is interested in how we learn the meaning of words, how we cooperate as social agents, and how search unfolds within our mental lexicon.
Dr. Michael N. Jones (Co Principal Investigator) is the William K. and Katheryn W. Estes Chair of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research focuses on language learning, comprehension, and knowledge representation in humans and machines.
Dr. Channing Hambric is a postdoctoral scholar at Bowdoin College. Her research examines how individuals construct categories and communicate meaning through everyday language use.
Michael Coleman is an Applications Programmer at Bowdoin College. He worked on the initial development of the game along with Graham Buck and continues to contribute to the technical infrastructure supporting the research.
For questions about the research, please contact Dr. Abhilasha Kumar .
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (Award Numbers 2235362 and 2235363).