Susan Carey

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Susan Elizabeth Carey (* 1942 ) is an American cognitive scientist , psychologist and professor at Indiana University .

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Carey graduated from Radcliffe College with a bachelor's degree in 1964, then studied on a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of London and received a PhD in experimental psychology from Harvard University in 1971 . In 1972 she became an Assistant Professor , 1977 Associate Professor and 1984 Professor of Psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 1996 she became a professor at New York University and in 2001 at Harvard University.

In 1999/2000 she was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 2008 she received the David E. Rumelhart Prize . She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001), the American Philosophical Society (2007), the National Academy of Sciences (2002), the National Academy of Education and a corresponding member of the British Academy. In 1998 she received the Jean Nicod Prize .

It deals with developmental psychology (cognitive development of children) and philosophy of science (historical development of concepts). In addition to children, she also experimentally investigated cognitive learning in monkeys such as their number concept (which she also researched in children). She argues that children and adults differ in conceptual changes in the development of knowledge representation systems (outlined in her book Conceptual Changes in Childhood ).

In 1978 she and Elsa Bartlett developed the Fast Mapping Concept, a hypothetical neural process with which children can learn a new concept after a one-time presentation and which would explain the speed of language learning in particular.

George A. Miller was one of her teachers . She worked at Harvard with Elizabeth Spelke , with whom she founded a Developmental Studies Lab.

She is married to the philosophy professor at New York University Ned Block .

Awards

In 2011, Susan Carey received the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology . For 2020, she was awarded the Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences by the National Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Conceptual Change in Childhood, MIT Press 1985
  • The Origin of Concepts, Oxford University Press 2009
  • with R. Diamond: From piecemeal to configurational representation of faces, Science, Volume 195, 1977, pp. 312-313.
  • with E. Markman: Cognitive Development, in: RE Rumelhart, BO Martin (Eds.), Handbook of Cognition and Perception, Vol. 1: Cognitive Science, 1999, pp. 201-254.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ S. Carey, E. Bartlett, Acquiring a single new word, in: Proceedings of the Stanford Child Language Conference, Vol. 15, 1978, pp. 17-29
  2. ^ Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Carey, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carey, Susan E .; Carey, Susan Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist and cognitive scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942