Jonathan F. Kominsky

Jonathan F. Kominsky is interested in how the mind represents the many cause-and-effect relationships encountered in daily life, and how these representations are used in reasoning, perception, and action. He uses tools from vision science, cognitive psychology, and developmental psychology to examine what kinds of causality are represented in the mind, how different kinds of causal representations may be related to one another, and how they emerge during development.

He also created PyHab, an open-source system for infant looking-time studies. It is designed for real-time infant gaze coding and stimulus presentation, and it creates self-contained experiment folders to make it easier to share entire experiments—including stimuli and code—across labs or via repositories such as OSF.