|
Elizabeth Shilin Spelke (born May 28, 1949) is an American cognitive psychologist at the Department of Psychology of Harvard University and director of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies. Starting in the 1980s, she carried out experiments on infants and young children to test their cognitive faculties. She has suggested that human beings have a large array of innate mental abilities. In recent years, she had an important role in the debate on cognitive differences between men and women.〔The Science of Gender and Science: Pinker vs. Spelke: A debate. May 16, 2005. http://edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/debate05_index.html〕 She defends the position that there is no scientific evidence of any significant disparity in the intellectual faculties of males and females. ==Education and career== Spelke did her undergraduate studies at Radcliffe College with the child psychologist Jerome Kagan. Her thesis studied attachment and emotional reactions in babies. She realized that she needed to have an idea of what babies really understood, and so began her lifelong interest in the cognitive aspect of child psychology. She did her Ph.D. at Cornell with developmental psychologist Eleanor Gibson, from whom she learned how to design experiments on young children. Her first academic post was at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked for nine years. Thereafter she moved first to Cornell, and then to MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She has been a professor at Harvard since 2001.〔Spelke, Elizabeth. Curriculum Vita (). http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~lds/pdfs/spelkecv_mar07.pdf〕 Spelke was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterS.pdf )〕 She was the recipient of the 2009 Jean Nicod Prize and delivered a series of lectures in Paris hosted by the French National Centre for Scientific Research. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Spelke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|