Kristy Armitage

My name is Kristy Armitage and I am a PhD Candidate in the School of Psychology at UQ.

My primary research interest is cognitive offloading, or our tendency to ‘offload’ a wide range of cognitive functions into the external environment to simplify or solve cognitive problems. Specifically, I am interested in the development of these behaviours in children – when do these behaviours emerge spontaneously, when do children become able to use these behaviours strategically? More broadly, I am interested in the role of metacognition in our decisions to offload cognition, and the impact of cognitive offloading on our understanding of what it means to be ‘intelligent’.

You can find me on Twitter and ResearchGate.