My name is Alon Hafri, and I'm a postdoctoral research fellow in the Departments of Cognitive Science and Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.

I'm interested in the link between what we see and how we conceptualize it. In particular, I study how language encodes the structure of scenes and situations, and what this can tell us about the mental processes (perceptual or otherwise) that extract such information.

I work with Mick Bonner, Chaz Firestone, and Barbara Landau on visual relations (such as the force-dynamic relations "in" and "on"). I use psychophysical, computational modeling, and fMRI techniques to identify how our perceptual and cognitive systems extract such relations from visual scenes, in a format that higher-level cognition can use and deploy.

Please feel free to contact me; I look forward to chatting with you more about science!

Email: ahafri@gmail.com / alon@jhu.edu Twitter: @AlonHafri Website: www.alonhafri.com