Education: Ph.D. in Cognitive Science, Indiana University Bloomington
Cognitive Mechanisms of Discovery, Concept Learning, Experimentation, Theory Building, Social Learning
Primary Research Area: Cognition
*** Recruiting Psychology PhD students for the Fall 2027 admissions cycle ***
Dubova, M.* & Sloman, S.* (2026) Excess Capacity LearningBehavioral and Brain Sciences.
Dubova, M., Moskvichev, A.,& Zollman, K. (2026). Against theory-motivated experimentation in science. Collective Intelligence.
Dubova, M., Chandramouli, S., Gigerenzer, G., Grünwald, P., Holmes, W., Lombrozo, T., Marelli, M., Musslick, S., Nicenboim, B., Ross, L., Shiffrin, R., White, M. & Wagenmakers, E. J., Bürkner, P., Sloman, S. J. (2025).Is Ockham's razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dubova, M. & Goldstone, R. L. (2023). Carving joints into nature: reengineering scientific concepts in light of concept-laden evidenceTrends in Cognitive Sciences, S1364-6613.