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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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Peter Hagoort FBA

Peter Hagoort is emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the emeritus founding director of the Donders Institute, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (DCCN, 1999), a cognitive neuroscience research centre at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

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Professor Josef Perner FBA

Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Development (esp. Theory of Mind--philosophical and psychological aspects

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Professor Michele Gelfand FBA

Michele Gelfand uses field, experimental, computational, and neuroscience methods to understand the evolution of culture--as well as its multilevel consequences for human groups.

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