Ben Prystawski

I am PhD Student in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, advised by Professor Noah Goodman. Before starting my PhD, I was an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, where I studied computer science and cognitive science.

In my research, I study the relationship between the human mind and culture. I am interested in how capacities for communication and social learning shape what we can learn over generations. The invention and cultural transmission of tools for thought, like writing and mathematics, is particularly interesting to me. My research uses a combination of computational modelling and behavioral experiments.