Hello!
My name is Sam Hunley, and I am a doctoral student at Emory University, studying in the Cognition and Development program. Though those of us in this program study a variety of topics, I spend most of my time investigating how children learn about the world around them. Specifically, I am interested in how children perceive the functional affordances, or capabilities, of the objects they encounter. Though this sounds fancy, essentially what I end up doing is seeing how children play with and interact with various types of toys.
Given that this is a blog - and blogs typically contain writing - what will I be writing about? As it stands, I want this blog to be a space where I can talk about and (hopefully) others can learn about issues in science. Sometimes this means I will be talking about the most recent scientific news. Other times, I will be talking about specific findings that I find intriguing. Basically, you can't be sure of what you will find here, but I hope that whatever it is, it is interesting.
Though I study cognitive development in children, I want this blog to examine a wider range of topics. Certainly, I will most likely spend a majority of my time talking about issues involving cognition and/or development. It is what I study, erego I am prone to talk about it. However, I will hope to discuss any aspect of science that I find interesting (feel free to provide suggestions!).
With that, let us begin. Hopefully, I will have a true post sometime early next week.
Sam
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