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Deepthi Kamawar is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She holds degrees including a B.Sc. in Cognitive Science (University of Toronto), B.Ed. (York University), M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology (University of Toronto). Her research focuses on young children’s cognitive development, particularly future-oriented cognition, executive function skills, and theory of mind. She investigates how children develop abilities like saving, inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and understanding others’ mental states. Her lab examines symbolic representation, intentionality in moral evaluations, and developmental progression of cognitive skills.
Research interests include children’s understanding of knowledge change over time, symbolic communication, and the role of executive functions in decision-making. Her work bridges developmental psychology and cognitive science, addressing topics like numerical cognition, language specificity in number processing, and task-based assessments of cognitive flexibility.
Dr. Kamawar’s studies often involve innovative experimental designs, such as the Multidimensional Card Selection Task and token savings tasks. She has contributed to debates on scalar implicature interpretation in children and the role of working memory in symbolic reasoning. Her research emphasizes applied and theoretical insights into early childhood development.
