Alon Hafri
Alon Hafri
Office location
105 The Green • Wolf Hall, Room 126 • Newark, DE 19716, USA
The Perception and Language Lab
800 Barksdale Road, Suite 113 • Newark, DE 19711
Education
- Ph.D. – University of Pennsylvania
- M.A. – University of Pennsylvania
- B.A. – Wesleyan University
Biography
Alon Hafri, Ph.D., is an assistant professor with the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. in psychology in 2019 from the University of Pennsylvania.
Hafri explores connections between language and vision in the mind, using behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to do so. Prior to UD, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and the Department of Cognitive Science, both at Johns Hopkins University. Outside of research, Alon makes homemade beer, soup and soap (and only rarely confuses the three).
Research Projects
The UD Perception and Language Lab is an interdisciplinary lab in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware. By integrating empirical and theoretical approaches from different areas of cogntive science, the lab investigates the link between what we see and how we describe it — and in turn what this can tell us about how we conceptualize the world.
Lab Director
Research Area
- Psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience of language
Research Questions
- Perception: How does perceptual processing contribute to our understanding of the world around us? What is the structure and format of perceptual representations? How do perceiving and remembering interact?
- Language: What can language reveal about the contents of perceptual and cognitive experience? How do children learn words for concepts — especially abstract ones? How are concepts represented in the mind?
- Cognition: How is information “translated” across cognitive domains? Do these domains represent information in similar ways, or even in common neural systems? What is the nature of the “language of thought”?
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The link between language and vision
January 19, 2023 | Written by Amy WolfUD Prof. Alon Hafri studies the connection between language and visual perception
