Team
Principal investigators
Ansgar D. Endress
Ansgar trained as a generalist engineer at École Polytechnique and obtained a doctorate in Cognitive Science from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Before joining City University London, he has been a post-doctoral fellow at the International School for Advanced Studies, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a visiting researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Ansgar studies the psychological mechanisms involved in language acquisition and use. He is particularly interested in evolutionarily ancient perceptual and memory mechanisms, and how they support a diverse set of computations in language acquisition. More generally, he is interested in reducing complex cognitive phenomena to basic psychological mechanisms in domains ranging from memory processing to theory of mind.
Link: http://www.endress.org
Dean D’Souza
Dean is a lecturer in developmental psychology at City, University of London.
Fascinated by human development, Dean completed a PhD at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London. This focused on the early cognitive and neurophysiological processes that underlie cognitive and language development in infants at high risk of autism and children with different neurodevelopmental disorders. In 2017, he set up the Early Learning and Neurodevelopment lab (the ELAN lab), which investigates mechanisms of developmental change in typical and atypical populations.
Postdocs