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Zenzi M. Griffin
Assistant Professor
Contact information: 654 Cherry st.School of Psychology Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta, GA 30332-0170
Phone: +1 404-894-6069 FAX: +1 404-894-8905Office: 232 JS Coon BuildingLab: G22 JS Coon Building
zenzi.griffin @psych.gatech.edu 
Zenzi M. Griffin received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (with a minor in Linguistics) from the Department of Psychology at […]

Recent Additions
[10 July 1998] Discussion about Geoffrey Sampson�s Educating Eve in The LINGUIST […]

STEVEN PINKER: PROFILE30 July 2003 11pm-11.35pm
 

For thousands of years, the fundamental question of why we are who we are has tickled philosophers, theologians and barroom thinkers after a couple of pints.
American psychology professor Dr Steven Pinker thinks he has the answers.
Scientific superstar
Working from the Massachusetts Institute […]

A World of Many EnglishesWe�ve been speaking English for more than 1000 years, and over that time it has changed radically.

As more and more people throughout the world use English and develop their own form of the language, Melvyn Bragg […]

Kelly S. Mix
Assistant Professor of Psychology(812) 855-9282kmix@indiana.edu

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1995
Research Interests
My research focuses on the development of number concepts and mathematical reasoning in infants and young children. I am interested in children�s early representations of number as well as the way these representations interact with acquisition of conventional symbol systems, such […]

References:
Brannon, E.M. 2002. The development of ordinal numerical knowledge in infancy. Cognition 83(April):223-240. Abstract available at http://www.elsevier.com/gej-ng/10/15/63/98/38/27/abstract.html.
Feigenson, L., […]

Current Directions in Psychological ScienceVolume 12 Issue 4 Page 114  - August 2003doi:10.1111/1467-8721.01244

The origins of pictorial competence

Judy S. DeLoache,1, * Sophia L. Pierroutsakos2, and David H. Uttal3

Pictorial competence, which refers to the many factors involved in perceiving, interpreting, understanding, […]

Elizabeth S. SpelkeDepartment of Psychology Harvard University 33 Kirkland St. Cambridge, MA 02138Phone: 617-495-3876Fax: 617-384-7944spelke@wjh.harvard.eduEDUCATION:Radcliffe College, 1967-1971. B. A. in Social Relations, 1971.Yale University, 1972-1973.Cornell University, 1973-1977. Ph.D. in Psychology, 1978.HONORS:Phi Beta Kappa, 1971; Sigma Xi, 1978; Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Fellowship, 1983; Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Research Award, 1984; John Simon […]

The complexity of language has bewildered scientists for decades. When adults are trying to learn a new language, they struggle for years to become fluent.  Yet young children rapidly acquire language with little apparent effort.   At the Laboratory of Developmental […]

Jesse SnedekerDepartment of Psychology Harvard University 33 Kirkland St. Cambridge, MA02138Phone: 617-495-48339Fax: 617-384-7944snedeker@wjh.harvard.eduEDUCATION:
University of Washington, B.A., 1994University of Pennsylvania, M.A., 1996University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1999
POSITIONS:
2001- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University2000-2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania
RESEARCH GRANTS:2002-2004 NSF ITR: Bayesian Learning at the Syntax-Semantics […]

Psychological ScienceVolume 14 Issue 3 Page 278  - May 2003doi:10.1111/1467-9280.03435

Research Report

Cognitive representation of negative numbers

Martin H. Fischer

Abstract - To understand negative numbers, must we refer to positive number representations (the phylogenetic hypothesis), or do we acquire a negative mental number line (the […]

Mind & LanguageVolume 16 Issue 1 Page 16  - February 2001doi:10.1111/1468-0017.00154

Symposium on Numerical Cognition

Pr�cis of The Number Sense

Stanislas Dehaene

�Number sense� is a short-hand for our ability to quickly understand, approximate, and manipulate numerical quantities. My hypothesis is that number sense rests […]

Susan CareyDepartment of Psychology Harvard University 33 Kirkland St. Cambridge, MA02138Phone: 617-495-3896Fax: 617-384-7944scarey@wjh.harvard.eduEDUCATION:Harvard University, Ph.D., 1971London University, Fulbright Fellowship, 1965 Radcliffe College, B.A., 1964FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS:National Academy of Sciences, 2002William James Fellow, American Psychology Society, 2002American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001Society for Experimental Psychology, 1999National Academy of Education, 1999Guggenheim Fellowship, 1999-2000George A. […]