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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 Stanislas Dehaene FBA

Experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience of human higher cognitive functions: language, reading, mathematics; brain mechanisms of conscious versus non-conscious processing

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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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Professor Andrew Pickles FBA

Statistical modelling and analysis with a special focus on the cognitive, emotional and behavioural development of children who confront both biological and social challenges.

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