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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

Current post

Marshall L Berkman Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

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Professor Michael Burton FBA

Cognitive psychology; Face perception; Interactions between computational, experimental and applied problems in psychology

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Professor Marcia Johnson FBA

Cognition and cognitive neuroscience: component processes of memory and cognition, reality/source monitoring (eg, distinguishing real from imagined events), executive function, emotion and cognition, the 'self' and cognition, aging and memory

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Professor Charles Nelson III FBA

Development and neural bases of processing social information (eg facial emotion); trajectories to autism, with a particular focus on populations at high risk for developing autism (eg, infants with an older sibling with autism; children with various single gene mutations that appear to confer risk for developing autism); effects of early adversity on brain and behavioral development, including exposure to both psychosocial adversities and biological adversities

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