(the "Schille" in Schille-Hudson is pronounced 'shill-ee', rhymes with chilly)
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Eleanor B. Schille-Hudson
Eleanor B. Schille-Hudson
I study how people think about and understand things they cannot see.
I am interested in how learning and expertise shape what people can and do see. In particular, I think about how both culture and perceptual learning affect what people pay attention to, and how that helps them make sense of the world around them, seen and unseen. I employ a combination of behavioral experiments, survey work, computational modeling, and theoretical analysis.
I am currently a postdoc working with Tanya Luhrmann in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. I earned my Ph.D. in Cognitive Science & Cognitive Psychology at Indiana University, Bloomington. My faculty advisors were David Landy (now at Netflix) and Rob Goldstone.
Please feel free to reach out! You can contact me by sending me an email. (I'm also on Bluesky these days!)
RECENT News
RECENT News
August 2025: Thanks to a new Templeton-funded grant, I will be doing another 3-year postdoc at Stanford University with Tanya Luhrmann!
July 2025: The paper version of "Voice Hearing in the General Population: the relationship between absorption, inner speech, and voice-like hallucinations" was accepted for publication at Schizophrenia Bulletin! Check my publications page for a draft.
June 25, 2025: I gave a (virtual) talk at the International Consortium on Hallucination Research on voice hearing in the general population.
April 22, 2025: A cool radio show called The Academic Minute aired a little segment on my prayer and problem solving research!
April 2, 2025: I gave a talk on "Cognitive Science and Spiritual Experience Across Cultures" at the Center for Cross Cultural Research at Western Washington University.
February 28-March 2, 2025: I participated in (and organized!) the final conference for our Templeton project, Perceiving Divine Presences at Stanford
January, 2025: Some publications are making their way into the world! The paper Prayer and Perceptual (and Other) Experiences is published in Cognitive Science. And a piece that I wrote for Aeon Magazine called "The power of prayer" is now out as well.
October 15, 2024: My short review of Vosniadou & Brewer's amazing article "Mental models of the earth: a study of conceptual change in childhood" was published online today in Nature Psych Reviews!
October 2024: I visited Yale to give a talk on the relationship between prayer practice and reports of spiritual experience at the Belief, Learning, & Memory Lab and then zipped down to Rutgers for a workshop with the Perceiving Divine Presences group.
September 15-20 2024: I am at the Esalen Institute, attending a workshop hosted by their Center for Theory and Research, titled "Taxonomies of the Unseen."
Sept 11-14 2024: I am in Lisbon, attending the ECHR & ICHR 2024 Meetings. I presented on cross-cultural rates of spiritual experience.
July 2024: I presented a poster on the rates of different spiritual experiences around the world and what that can tell us about the mind at CogSci 2024.
June 2024: I attended SPP's 50th annual conference in my hometown of West Lafayette, IN
February 2024: My paper Prayer as collaborative solving was published in Religion, Brain & Behavior.
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