Asifa Majid, Ph.D., Professor of Cognitive Science

University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

2022-23 William Bentinck-Smith, Radcliffe Institute Fellow

Asifa Majid studies the relationship among language, culture, and mind.  Majid, who earned her PhD at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland, has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters...

Raj Chetty, Ph.D ~ Harvard University, William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics, Department of Economics and Director of Opportunity Insights  

Topic: “Social Connections and Children's Chances of Rising out of Poverty: New Insights from Big Data”

Abstract: Children’s chances of earning more than their...

Psychology Colloquium - Linda B. Smith, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Indiana University Bloomington

https://psych.indiana.edu/directory/faculty/smith-linda.html

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Laura Schulz, PhD

Jenny Saffran, PhD

 Professor of Psychology

University of Wisconsin - Madison

https://www.waisman.wisc.edu/pi-Saffran-Jenny.htm

Topic : Building a lexicon

  Abstract: 

Words are bundles of meanings and sounds (or signs). As mature language users, we have sophisticated knowledge about how words work, both on their own and as part of a lexicon. How does that knowledge emerge? In my...