Schulz is known for her work on the early childhood development of cognition, causal inference, discovery, and learning.
There, alongside Pawan Sinha, she runs the post-baccalaureate Research Scholars Program in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, working to prepare disadvantaged students for graduate school.
One of the topics is how children process the information they've gained in order to better infer, interact, and explain the world around them.
[5] As of 2020, she has 95 publications including articles, data, and papers, 20 of which were completed during her time at The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) at MIT.
[6] In March 2015 she gave a TED talk called "The surprisingly logical minds of babies", which has since had almost 2 million views.