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Professor Elizabeth Spelke FBA

Cognitive psychology and cognitive development, with special focus on the nature and origins of knowledge of material objects, animate beings, number, geometry, and the social world
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2015
Subjects
Psychology
Sections
Psychology

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Marshall L Berkman Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

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