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Syrett publication wins award
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Kristen Syrett has won The Annual Prize for the Best Paper Written by an Untenured Scientist for her new paper co-authored with Julien Musolino in Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, listed in the Publications section of this issue. Congratulations Kristen!
"The Rise of Consciousness and the Development of Emotional Life"
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Dr. Michael Lewis' new book "The Rise of Consciousness and the Development of Emotional Life" is now available through Guildor Publications, Inc. - http://www.guilford.com/cgi-bin/cartscript.cgi?page=pr/lewis5.htm&dir=pp/dp
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The FABBS Foundation Honors Dr. Rochel Gelman
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Rochel Gelman is widely-recognized as a pioneer in the investigation of cognitive development. She is known for her ground-breaking empirical and theoretical contributions to the field. Her vision, coupled with her creative new protocols, called into question long-held assumptions about preschool children’s cognitive competence and paved the way for more recent traditions in developmental science. Over the course of her career, Gelman has developed an elegant theoretical framework that ...
Babies as biologists
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Click to read "On Learning Animal-ness" - an article in a recent issue of National Geographic about the recent PNAS paper titled "Young infants have biological expectations about animals" by Peipei Setoh, Di Wu, Renée Baillargeon and our own Rochel Gelman.
"A Great Day for Philosophy" by Ernie Lepore
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On May 30th, 2013, The New York Times published the article "A Great Day for Philosophers" by RuCCS Co-Director Ernie Lepore.
"Along with the words to be offered here is an interesting artifact— a photograph of an assembly of some of the most important and influential philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century on one fine day in April in 1984 in front of the Hyatt Hotel in downtown New Brunswick, N.J...."