Brian Leahy

Brian Leahy is a postdoctoral associate working with the Early Childhood Cognition Lab and the Computational Cognitive Science group. His work addresses age-related changes in the logical resources children bring to bear in their thinking and decision making. He has focused on the case study of modal operators, especially possibility operators: When do children start to use symbols that mark propositions as merely possible? His most recent project addresses how children use their understanding of what is possible to evaluate the probabilities of possible events.