 She then pursued a doctoral degree in Cognitive Psychology at New York University and graduated in 2003, under the advisement of Susan Carey.Feigenson was a visiting graduate student fellow at the Department of Psychology at Harvard University from 2001 to 2003.She then became a postdoctoral fellow at Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique in Ecole Normale Supérieure (CNRS) in France.