1. Ursula Bellugi was an American cognitive neuroscientist.
10 Facts About Ursula Bellugi
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Ursula Bellugi was a Distinguished Professor Emerita and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.
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Ursula Bellugi is known for research on the neurological bases of American Sign Language and language representation in people with Williams Syndrome.
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Ursula Bellugi's father was Maximilian Herzberger, a physicist and mathematician at the University of Jena.
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Ursula Bellugi was Jewish and lost his job during the Third Reich.
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Ursula Bellugi was an associate with the Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at the Salk Institute.
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Ursula Bellugi investigated the language abilities of individuals with Williams Syndrome, a puzzling genetically based disorder that leaves language, facial recognition and social skills remarkably well-preserved in contrast to severe inadequacy in other cognitive aptitudes.
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Ursula Bellugi was on the advisory council of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
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Ursula Bellugi conducted much of her research in collaboration with her second husband Edward Klima, a linguist who specialized in the study of American Sign Language at the University of California San Diego.
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Ursula Bellugi died on April 17,2022, in La Jolla, California.