Broadly speaking, my research investigates the interaction between the representation of category knowledge and the use of that knowledge. I am especially interested in how people use existing knowledge to develop new ideas or products. Within the broad domain of category representation and use, I tend to focus on issues of alignability. Alignability is a theoretical construct describing the manner in which concepts are compared.
It would describe my research and break it down into several sections:
- research interests
- Analogy
- Conformity Effect
- Conceptual Expansion
- Technology Use (eventually)
- creative cognition lab
Research Topics