Susan E Carey was born on 1942 and is an American psychologist who is a professor of psychology at Harvard University.
22 Facts About Susan Carey
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Susan Carey has conducted experiments on infants, toddlers, adults, and non-human primates.
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Susan Carey's books include Conceptual Change in Childhood and The Origin of Concepts.
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In 2009, Carey was the first woman to receive the David E Rumelhart Prize for significant contributions to the theoretical foundation of human cognition.
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Susan Carey was born in 1942 to William N Carey Jr.
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Susan Carey attended Ottawa Township High School in Ottawa, Illinois, graduating in 1960.
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Susan Carey received her BA from Radcliffe College in 1964.
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Susan Carey studied African history at the School of Oriental and African Studies and attended Wason's laboratory meetings in cognitive studies.
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Susan Carey began graduate work at Harvard in 1967, receiving her PhD in experimental psychology in 1971.
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Susan Carey was employed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1972 to 1996 in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
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At MIT, Susan Carey worked alongside George Miller, Jerome Bruner, and Roger Brown and first met Elizabeth Spelke.
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Susan Carey was an assistant professor at MIT from 1972 to 1977, an associate professor from 1977 to 1984, and a full professor from 1984 to 1996.
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In 1994, Susan Carey was one of 16 women faculty in the School of Science at MIT who drafted and co-signed a letter to the then-Dean of Science Robert Birgeneau, which started a campaign to highlight and challenge gender discrimination at MIT.
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In 1996, Susan Carey joined New York University, where she was a professor in the department of psychology from 1996 to 2001.
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Susan Carey has served on editorial boards including Cognition, Development Psychology, Memory and Cognition, and Psychological Review.
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Susan Carey argues that extended mapping requires both the creation of new primitives for words and hypothesis testing about word meanings.
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In 1985 Susan Carey wrote Conceptual Change in Childhood, a book about the cognitive differences between children and adults.
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Susan Carey suggested that children's early understanding of biological concepts like "animal" indicates anthropomorphic thinking or folk theorization in which humans are expected to be prototypical of non-humans.
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Susan Carey argued that similar psychological processes are involved in conceptual development in children and in the development of theories by scientists as shown through the history of science.
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In 2009 Susan Carey published The Origin of Concepts, "an elegant, well-written, and ambitious synthesis" with the goal of providing a comprehensive explanation of conceptual structure, concept acquisition and change, and cognitive development.
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Susan Carey is examining the question of how executive functioning impacts adults' ability to express the knowledge they have previously learned.
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Susan Carey is married to the professor of philosophy Ned Block.