Nicole Sahrling
Undergraduate researcher | Psychology | UC San Diego
Hello! I'm a rising fourth-year undergraduate psychology student at UC San Diego and an honors thesis student in the Visual Learning Lab (PI: Dr. Bria Long). I'm curious about how children communicate what they know, especially through language and drawing, and how we can use tools from cognitive science and machine learning to better understand those representations.
You can email me at nsahrling [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research
My research explores how children and machines represent concepts across language and vision. I'm also interested in visual perception, theory of mind, conceptual development, and leveraging AI models to understand cognitive representations of visual concepts. This summer, I am analyzing how children describe and draw sea creatures to explore early visual and linguistic knowledge.
Previously, I also spent two wonderful quarters working with Bill Pepe in the Social Cognition and Learning Lab (PI: Dr. Lindsey Powell), where I learned a great deal about early social reasoning and what it means to work on a collaborative research team.
Feel free to reach out to me, happy to connect!