Elizabeth Spelke | |
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 Spelke in April 2016 | |
| Born | May 28, 1949 |
| Education | Radcliffe College (BA) Yale University Cornell University (MA, PhD) |
| Awards | C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Sciences (2016) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Developmental psychology, cognitive development |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Website | http://harvardlds.org/our-labs/spelke-labspelke-lab-members/elizabeth-spelke/ |
Elizabeth Shilin Spelke FBA (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.[1] In recent years, she has made important contributions to the debate on cognitive differences between men and women.[2] She defends the position that there is no scientific evidence of any significant disparity in the intellectual faculties of males and females.[3]
- ^ Spelke, Elizabeth (2000). "Core Knowledge". American Psychologist. 55 (11): 1233–1243. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.55.11.1233. PMID 11280937.
- ^ "Edge: THE SCIENCE OF GENDER AND SCIENCE". www.edge.org. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
- ^ Spelke, Elizabeth (2005). "Differences in Intrinsic Aptitude for Mathematics and Science?". American Psychologist. 60 (9): 950–958. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.69.5544. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.60.9.950. PMID 16366817.