Dr. Nicolò Cesana Arlotti

Biography

Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. He completed his Ph.D. in 2016 at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. His research focuses on human ability, linguistic productivity, and the flexible forms of learning and planning, particularly in relation to how infants and children develop logical cognition. His approach emphasizes preverbal infancy and expands across young children to adults, integrating various frameworks from developmental psychology, vision science, psycholinguistics, and philosophy. He has discovered the presence of basic forms of logical representation in infants as young as 12 months and aims to further explore the primitive logical resources that support striking learning capacities in children. His studies investigate how maturation, experience, and the acquisition of logical language contribute to decision-making during preschool years and how basic logical computations interface with a-linguistic cognition in adults.

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