Alison Gopnik | |
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 Gopnik in 2008 | |
| Born | June 16, 1955 |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Theory of mind, theory theory, causal learning |
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| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization (2021) James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Developmental psychology |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | The development of non-nominal expressions in 12–24 month old children[1] (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerome Bruner |
Alison Gopnik (born June 16, 1955) is an American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her work in the areas of cognitive and language development, specializing in the effect of language on thought, the development of a theory of mind, and causal learning. Her writing on psychology and cognitive science has appeared in Science, Scientific American,[2] The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, New Scientist, Slate and others.[3] Her body of work also includes four books and over 100 journal articles.
She has frequently appeared on TV and radio including The Charlie Rose Show and The Colbert Report. Slate writes of Gopnik, "One of the most prominent researchers in the field, Gopnik is also one of the finest writers, with a special gift for relating scientific research to the questions that parents and others most want answered. This is where to go if you want to get into the head of a baby."[4] Gopnik is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, sharing the Mind & Matter column with Robert Sapolsky on alternating Saturdays.[5]
- ^ Gopnik, Alison (1980). The development of non-nominal expressions in 12-24-month-old children. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
- ^ Gopnik, Alison, "Making AI More Human: Artificial intelligence has staged a revival by starting to incorporate what we know about how children learn", Scientific American, vol. 316, no. 6 (June 2017), pp. 60–65.
- ^ "Alison Gopnik". Auburn University. Archived from the original on 2012-07-28. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ^ Bloom, Paul. "What's Inside a Big Baby Head?". Slate. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ^ Gopnik, Alison. "Why Are Our Kids Useless? Because We're Smart". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 April 2013.