My research uses computational and experimental techniques to investigate how children and adults construct rich conceptual systems that support everyday cognition and how these conceptual systems interface with language. A second strand of my research uses experimental methods and information theoretic models of language-processing to investigate how we actively build representations of context and how these contexts influence semantic and pragmatic computations.

2019, Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, NY

Frank Mollica is Lecturer (≈ US Assistant Professor) of Computational Cognitive Science in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. In 2019, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester supervised by Steven Piantadosi and spent a year as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Melbourne.