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Founders and current leading scientists in developmental psychology.
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Baillargeon, Renee
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[Department of Psychology, University of Illinois] Infant cognition (acquisition of knowledge about the physical world, causal reasoning, spatial and numerical reasoning) and infant perception (object segregation, time integration).
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Carey, Susan
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[Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Harvard] Acquisition of object concepts, numerical abilities in infants. Full-text papers available.
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Gelman, Rochel
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[RUCCS, Rutgers] Causal and quantitative reasoning, constraints on concept acquisition, perceptual animacy.
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Gopnik, Alison
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[Institute of Human Development, Berkeley] Cognition and language development, children's theories of mind. Downloadable fulltext papers.
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Keil, Frank C.
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[Cognition and Development Lab, Yale] Categorization, intuitive theories, conceptual acquisition and change, causal cognition.
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Leslie, Alan M.
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[Cognitive Development Lab, RUCCS, Rutgers] Cognitive architecture in early development, object cognition in infancy, "theory of mind". Presents the lab and current research topics.
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Luria, Alexander R.
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(1902-1977) - Dedicated to the memory of the soviet psychologist and its work in the field of cognitive psychology, ontogenetic development, mental retardation.
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Luria, Alexander R.
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(1902–1977) Biography, works and photo archive.
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Mehler, Jacques
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[Language, Cognition and Development Lab, SISSA, Trieste, Italy] Language acquisition, phonological bootstrapping, distributional learning.
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Meltzoff, Andrew
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[Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, Washington] Cognitive development, infant imitation and memory, theory of mind and folk psychology.
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Piaget, Jean
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(1896-1980) Short biography of the french psychologist.
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Spelke, Elizabeth
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[Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Harvard] Spatial representations in children, objecthood, numerical thinking. Full-text papers available.
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Vygotsky, Lev
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(1896-1934) Biography, works and photo archive.
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