The human visual system can only select and keep track of a small handful of objects at any given moment.... Read more about George A. Alvarez

Research interests: Cognitive neuroscience, high-level vision, object representation, neural organization 

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Research interests: Mid- and high-level visual object representation, attention, visual short-term memory, task performance, and human occipital/temporal/parietal cortex.

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Susan Carey received her BA from Radcliffe College and her PhD in Experimental Psychology from Harvard University, studying with George Miller, Jerome Bruner and Roger Brown.  She taught at MIT (Psychology Department, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences) from 1973-1996, at NYU (Psychology Department) from 1996 - 2001, and has been at Harvard (Psychology Department) since 2001, where she cofounded the Laboratory for Developmental Studies with Elizabeth Spelke.  She was awarded the 1998 Nicod Prize, was named the William James Fellow of APS in 2002, was awarded the David Rumerhart Prize in 2009, and APA Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award in in 2009, and an APA Mentor Award in 2013.  She is a member of the Society for Experimental Psychology, the American Association of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. 

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Spelke’s laboratory focuses on the sources of uniquely human cognitive capacities, including the capacity for formal mathematics,... Read more about Elizabeth S. Spelke

Research Interests: Language; communication and common knowledge; history and psychology of violence

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Research interests: Phenomenology of visual perception, visuo-motor coordination and its perception, and individual differences

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