PhD Student, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
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Julia McClellan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences investigating cognitive development in the Developing Minds Lab (Dr. Melissa Kibbe) and is originally from San Francisco, CA. She is interested in the format and algorithms that characterize the way in which we humans think, and is researching this both in the visual and compositional domain. To learn more about McClellan’s research and publications, visit her webpage.
In Spring 2025, Julia received a CISS Summer mini-grant to support her work using development as a tool to investigate cognition — the maturational processes and experiences needed to bring about cognitive development. Learn more in our featured article.