Our team is concerned mostly with reasoning and inferential activity viewed widely. 
One aspect of our work is focused on the semantics and pragmatics of logical expressions because these terms obviously play a central role in reasoning.  This is why we study connectives such as if-then, and, or, and not, quantifiers such as Some and All, modals such as might and must as well as spatial terms such as left of and right of.

A second aspect of our work focuses on the evolution of language and cognition.  Since Cosmides and Tooby applied their evolutionary approach to reasoning and to cognitive functions generally, evolutionary psychology has become an influential area and has given rise to numerous empirical investigations that follow from it.  For example, how does one process information that arrives socially and that contradicts our initial beliefs?

We investigate children, adults and exceptional populations and use a host of experimental techniques to carry out our investigations (EEG, fMRI, MEG & eyetracking), whichever one can best help us answer a specific question.