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Judy Fan

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Judy Fan

@judyefan

Cognitive scientist seeking to reverse engineer the human cognitive toolkit. Asst Prof of Psychology @Stanford.

Palo Alto, CA

cogtoolslab.github.io

Joined October 2016

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Judy Fan
@judyefan
Jul 28, 2025
Thrilled to welcome members of @cogsci_soc to the SF/Bay area for #CogSci2025 this week! Here's a preview of what the Cognitive Tools Lab 🧠🛠️ @Stanford @StanfordPsych will be presenting!
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Judy Fan
@judyefan
Jul 12, 2022
After several incredible years at @UCSD, I am excited to share that my lab will be moving to @StanfordPsych in July 2023! Looking so forward to this new chapter at @Stanford, and deeply grateful for my time as part of the @UCSDPsychology community.🙏
Judy Fan
@judyefan
Jun 22, 2018
I'm excited to share that I'll be starting as an assistant professor in Psychology at UCSD in July 2019. Please get in touch if you (or someone you know) might be interested in joining my lab as an RA, grad student, or postdoc!
Judy Fan
@judyefan
Jun 22, 2019
Interested in human-AI collaboration and sketching? Check out our latest work (w/ @notwaldorf, @hardmaru, @GoogleMagenta) exploring real-time collaboration with sketchRNN, which we’re excited to present at this year’s ACM Creativity & Cognition (@acm_cc)!
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Judy Fan
@judyefan
Jul 2, 2023
Cognitive scientists! You don’t want to miss our #CogSci2023 Workshop: “How does the mind discover useful abstractions?” cogsci-abstractions-workshop.github.io Co-organized w/ the peerless @wkvong + Lio Wong + @marcelomattar!
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Judy Fan
@judyefan
Jul 18, 2023
Seeing this review paper come together was a ✨dream✨come true. A joy to synthesize so much of the work on drawing & cognition that has inspired me over the years & an honor to learn so much from co-authors @WilmaBainbridge @ChamberlainRS @wammesjd along the way.
Nature Reviews Psychology
@NatRevPsych
Jul 17, 2023
'Drawing as a versatile cognitive tool', a new Review by Judith E. Fan (@judyefan), Wilma A. Bainbridge (@WilmaBainbridge), Rebecca Chamberlain (@ChamberlainRS) & Jeffrey D. Wammes (@wammesjd) 🚨FREE to access until July 31🚨 go.nature.com/3K3dyb0
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Judy Fan
@judyefan
Sep 12, 2019
What makes Pictionary so fun & challenging? For one, there are so many different ways to draw the same thing! Our new paper w/ @hawkrobe, M. Wu, & N. Goodman, out at @CompBrainBeh, investigates how people change how they draw depending on the context: rdcu.be/bQqxr!
Judy Fan
@judyefan
Apr 9, 2019
Hiya, world! The Cognitive Tools Lab (cogtoolslab.github.io) at @UCSanDiego is now live and we are so lucky to be welcoming inaugural PhD students Holly Huey and @wang_haoliang! Remember these names, they're going to blow us all away!
Judy Fan
@judyefan
Jun 16, 2022
Calling all cognitive scientists fascinated by how we use images to think & communicate! We have just the summer blockbuster event for YOU — The @images2symbols Workshop at #CogSci2022! images2symbols.github.io Co-organized w/ the incomparable @hollyahuey, @kushin_m, & Tim Rogers!
Judy Fan
@judyefan
Apr 20, 2023
Job alert!🚨🧠🛠️ We @cogtoolslab @Stanford @StanfordPsych are recruiting a full-time lab manager to join our team Summer/Fall 2023. More information available here: cogtoolslab.github.io/prospective.ht…. Please share widely! 🙏
cogtoolslab.github.io
information for prospective lab members – cognitive tools lab
info for prospective students
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Judy Fan
@judyefan
Jul 14, 2025
Excited to take part in @TEDAISF this fall!
TEDAI San Francisco
@TEDAISF
Jul 14, 2025
📣 Speaker Announcement: @judyefan, Asst Prof of Psychology at @Stanford, joins @TEDAISF 2025! At Stanford’s Cognitive Tools Lab, she studies how our mental tools shape thought, and what that means for designing smarter AI. 📅 October 21–22, 2025 📍 San Francisco Link below ⬇️
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Judy Fan
@judyefan
May 27, 2024
👇🧠🫖 ‼️ You're all invited to our COGGRAPH workshop @cogsci_soc this summer (coggraph.github.io)!! Come for the ✨stellar speakers spanning cognitive science & computer graphics – 🥳stay for the incredible interdisciplinary conversations!!
Kartik Chandra (also on Mastodon and Bsky)
@_k_a_c_h_
May 27, 2024
Hi friends — I'm delighted to announce a new summer workshop on the emerging interface between cognitive science 🧠 and computer graphics 🫖! We're calling it: COGGRAPH! coggraph.github.io June – July 2024, free & open to the public (all career stages, all disciplines) 🧶
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Judy Fan
@judyefan
Jul 6, 2020
ICE's policy on virtual instruction has the potential to effect (in conjunction w/ other recent travel bans) deep + irreparable damage to higher education in the U.S. Please make noise about this at your institutions, w/ your Congressional reps—we can't afford to NOT fight this.
Judy Fan
@judyefan
Dec 29, 2019
Thrilled that this work w/ @wammesjd @magicalnumber7 @NeuroAILab @ptoncompmemlab & Nick Turk-Browne is finally out at #JNeurosci (@SfNJournals)!
SfN Journals
@SfNJournals
Dec 23, 2019
Drawing an object and naming it engages the brain in similar ways, according to research from @judyefan et al. in #JNeurosci. How drawing practice enhances how the brain shares information about an object between different regions over time: bit.ly/2S3kqL2