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Kim W. Wong is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Williams College, where she leads the WAVE lab. Her research focuses on visual cognition, intuitive physics, and the spontaneous extraction of higher-level properties from visual scenes. She completed her PhD in Psychology at Yale University under Brian Scholl’s Perception and Cognition lab, with additional collaborations at the Cognitive & Neural Computation lab (Yildirim) and Johns Hopkins’ Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (McCloskey).
Her work explores how perception extracts concepts like navigational affordances, unfinishedness, and intuitive physics (e.g., block tower stability, cloth dynamics). Key projects include studying visual routines in mazes, spontaneous path tracing, and the perception of causal history through physics-based priors. She employs methods like change detection, visual working memory tasks, and computational modeling (e.g., the Woven model for cloth perception).
Her research has been presented at venues like the Vision Sciences Society and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Notable contributions include demonstrating how unfinished visual events prioritize memory retention and how unstable towers break into visual awareness faster than stable ones.
Education: PhD in Psychology (Yale University), with prior involvement in labs studying perception, cognitive neuroscience, and statistical learning. Her current projects extend to soft material perception, temporal dilation effects, and the neural underpinnings of intuitive physics.
