She received her BA (2005) from The College of New Jersey and her MS (2009) and PhD (2012) from Binghamton University. Her research interests are focused better understanding how people learn concepts. In particular, she is interested in the role that contrast plays in the development of category representations. For example, to what extent does a learner develop a different representation of dog if the concept is learned alongside examples of cats versus examples of giraffes? A substantial portion of her work involves interpreting behavioral phenomena in terms of specific predictions made by category learning models.