Elizabeth Bates | |
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| Born | Elizabeth Ann Bates July 26, 1947 Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | December 13, 2003 (aged 56) San Diego, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Saint Louis University University of Chicago |
| Known for | Research on the cognitive, neural, and social bases of language |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Language acquisition Cognitive science Cognitive neuroscience |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego University of Colorado |
Elizabeth Ann Bates (July 26, 1947 – December 13, 2003) was a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. She was an internationally renowned expert and leading researcher in child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, aphasia, and the neurological bases of language, and she authored 10 books and over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these subjects.[1] Bates was well known for her assertion that linguistic knowledge is distributed throughout the brain and is subserved by general cognitive and neurological processes.