Kim W. Wong

About

It is not surprising that the human mind is capable of reasoning about complex properties like physics (e.g. "Will that stack of plates fall?") or navigation ability (e.g. "Can I get out of this maze?") — but perhaps such properties are also spontaneously extracted as a part of how we see the world in the first place?

In short, I’m a cognitive scientist exploring visual cognition, focusing on topics such as intuitive physics, visual routines, navigational affordances, and unfinishedness. I'm now running the WAVE lab as an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Williams College.

I completed my PhD in Psychology at Yale University. I worked primarily in Brian Scholl's Perception and Cognition lab, and also collaborated with Ilker Yildirim's Cognitive & Neural Computation lab. Previously, I worked with Michael (Mike) McCloskey in the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Johns Hopkins.

Contact

kimberly.wong@yale.edu