Susan Gelman
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Who is Susan Gelman?
Susan Gelman is a Heinz Werner Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the topics of cognitive development, language acquisition, categorization, inductive reasoning, causal reasoning, and relationships between language and thought. Gelman subscribes to the domain specificity view of cognition, asserting that the mind is composed of specialized modules subserving specific cognitive functions.
Her brother is the statistician Andrew Gelman.
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- Also known as
- Susan A. Gelman
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College
Psychology
( - 1980) - Ancient Greece
- PhD, Stanford University
Psychology; Linguistics
(1980 - 1984)
- Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College
- Lived in
- Michigan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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