13 Facts About Elizabeth Spelke

Elizabeth Shilin Spelke FBA was born on May 28,1949 and is an American cognitive psychologist at the Department of Psychology of Harvard University and director of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies.

Elizabeth Spelke has suggested that human beings have a large array of innate mental abilities.

Elizabeth Spelke defends the position that there is no scientific evidence of any significant disparity in the intellectual faculties of males and females.

Elizabeth Spelke's thesis studied attachment and emotional reactions in babies.

Elizabeth Spelke realized that she needed to have an idea of what babies really understood, and so began her lifelong interest in the cognitive aspect of child psychology.

Elizabeth Spelke has been a professor at Harvard since 2001.

Elizabeth Spelke was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.

Elizabeth Spelke was the recipient of the 2009 Jean Nicod Prize and delivered a series of lectures in Paris hosted by the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

Elizabeth Spelke was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.

Elizabeth Spelke was honored several times with the Honoris Causa degree in France, Netherlands, Sweden, and Uruguay.

Elizabeth Spelke surmised that a statistical difference in the variance of innate abilities among male and female populations could play a role.

Elizabeth Spelke was among the strongest critics of Summers, and in April 2005, she faced Steven Pinker in an open debate over the issue.

Elizabeth Spelke declared that her own experiments revealed no difference between the mental capacities of male and female children ranging in age from 5 months to 7 years old.