Contact

Email

andrew.perfors@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials

Position
Professor of Psychology
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
Education
PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Masters (Coursework & Research)
Stanford University
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
Stanford University
ORCID

0000-0002-6976-0732

Prof Andrew Perfors

Professor of Psychology
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
142 Scholarly works
10 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2024

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Bridging the Meaning Gap: A Computational Approach to Semantic Variation
  • 2019

    Conference Proceedings

    Do Additional Features Help or Hurt Category Learning? The Curse of Dimensionality in Human Learners
    DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12724
  • 2018

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Understanding Information and Trust: From the Individual to the Population
  • 2017

    Research Grant

    Learning From Others: Inductive Reasoning Based on Human-Generated Data
  • 2017

    Journal article

    Bayesian models of cognition revisited: Optimality aside and letting data drive psychological theory
    DOI: 10.1037/rev0000052
  • 2016

    Journal article

    Leaping to Conclusions: Why Premise Relevance Affects Argument Strength
    DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12308
  • 2016

    Journal article

    Structure at every scale: A semantic network account of the similarities between unrelated concepts
    DOI: 10.1037/xge0000192
Andrew Perfors

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS