Susan Gelman

Susan A. Gelman (born July 24, 1957) is currently Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of psychology and linguistics and the director of the Conceptual Development Laboratory at the University of Michigan. Gelman studies language and concept development in young children. Gelman subscribes to the domain specificity view of cognition, which asserts that the mind is composed of specialized modules supervising specific functions in the human and other animals. Her book ''The Essential Child'' is an influential work on cognitive development.

Gelman was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2012. She has served as the President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2018) and the President of the Cognitive Development Society (2005-2007). Gelman was a founding co-editor of the journal the ''Annual Review of Developmental Psychology''. Provided by Wikipedia