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Elizabeth Spelke is the Marshall L. Berkman Professor at Harvard University, where she specializes in psychology and cognitive science. Her research focuses on uniquely human cognitive capacities, including formal mathematics, the use of symbolic representations, and the development of comprehensive taxonomies of objects. Spelke investigates the origins and growth of human cognitive abilities in infants and children, and compares these capacities with those of nonhuman primates across diverse cultures. Current projects delve into how infants and children recognize and categorize objects, understand object motions, and engage in social reasoning related to goal-directed actions and mental states. Additionally, her work explores the development of knowledge about natural numbers and arithmetic as well as spatial reasoning in early childhood.
Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).