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About Susan Gelman
- Susan A.
- Gelman (born July 24, 1957) is currently Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of psychology and linguistics and the director of the Conceptual Development Laboratory at the University of Michigan.
- Her research focuses on cognitive development, language acquisition, categorization, inductive reasoning, causal reasoning, and the relationship between language and thought.
- Gelman subscribes to the domain specificity view of cognition, which asserts that the mind is composed of specialized modules supervising specific functions in the human and other animals. Gelman was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
- She was also formerly President of the Cognitive Development Society (2005-2007).
- She is currently Chair of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society and President-Elect of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Her younger brother is the statistician Andrew Gelman of Columbia University.
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