Laura van de BRaak
What I do
Research
I study explanations of how people can come to understand each other in situations where they do not have mutual understanding to start with, a capacity that we termed communicative alignment.
Additionally, I have a fast-growing research interest in meta-science and how theoretical problem-finding plays a large role in studying explanations of cognitive capacities.
Blog Articles
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Publications
van de Braak, L. D., De Haan, R., Dingemanse, M., Toni, I., Van Rooij, I., & Blokpoel, M. (2024). Intractability obstacles to explantions of communication. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Cognitive Modelling. Society for Mathematical Psychology (pre-print available via https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ep8qc).
Adolfi, F. G., van de Braak, L.D., & Woensdregt, M. (in revision). From empirical problem-solving to theoretical problem-finding perspectives on the cognitive sciences. (pre-print available via https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jthxf).
van de Braak, L. D., Dingemanse, M., Toni, I., van Rooij, I., & Blokpoel, M. (2021). Computational challenges in explaining communication: How deep the rabbit hole goes. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43(43).
Teaching
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About Me
I am a PhD candidate in the Computational Cognitive Science lab at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at the Radboud Universty. Under the supervision of Iris van Rooij, Mark Blokpoel, Mark Dingemanse and Ivan Toni, I am studying explanations of how people can come to understand each other in situations where they do not have mutual understanding to start with, a capacity that we termed communicative alignment.
This project involves many different disciplines. To construct an initial computational theory and explanation, I used computational modelling skills as well as agent based modelling techniques. When finding a good explanation was shown to be more involved than could be captured by the developed models, I used computational complexity analysis as well as other meta-theoretical and meta-scientific techniques to analyse and reveal the theoretical problems involved when trying to explain communicative alignment.