Name: Celeste Kidd
Discipline: Psychology
Degrees: Bachelors in linguistics and journalism, USC, 2007; Ph.D. in brain and cognitive sciences, University of Rochester, 2013.
Research interests: My lab builds and test computational models of attention, learning and curiosity with an emphasis on how these processes evolve throughout development.
Fun fact: I was a TIME 2017 Person of the Year as one of the “Silence Breakers,” for advocacy against power-based harassment of students.
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