Elizabeth Shilin Spelke FBA (born May 28, 1949) is an American cognitive psychologist at the Department of Psychology of Harvard University and director of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies.
Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.
It's not about being right, it's about getting it right.
The job of the baby is to learn.
I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.
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Charles R. Brown
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John I. Jenkins
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W. I. Thomas
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