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Professor Susan Carey FBA

Conceptual development: innate representational capacities and the mechanisms that allow humans to transcend them; the acquisition (over evolutionary, historical and ontogenetic time frames) of physical, biological, and mathematical concepts.
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
Psychology
Sections
Psychology
Website
https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/susan-e-carey

Current post

Henry A Morss Jr and Elizabeth W Morss Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

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Professor Asifa Majid FBA

The relationship between language, culture and cognition, particularly how different languages and cultures shape and reflect the mind.

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Clinical psychology; mistrust, paranoia, and delusions; psychological treatments for psychosis; virtual reality in understanding and treating mental health conditions

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Professor Anne Cutler FBA

The perception of speech, including its development across infancy; in particular how speech perception processes are shaped by language experience

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