# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ursula-bellugi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:28:34.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ursula-bellugi"
name: "Ursula Bellugi"
slug: "ursula-bellugi"
description: "Ursula Bellugi was an American cognitive neuroscientist. She was a Distinguished Professor Emerita and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. She is known for research on the neurological bases of American Sign Language and language representation in people with Williams Syndrome."
tagline: "American psychologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bellugi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-02-21"
deathDate: "2022-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.31
  momentum:             3.57142857142857
  historical:           5.473686666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ursula Bellugi"
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    title: "Ursula Bellugi"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Bellugi"
    title: "Ursula Bellugi"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Bellugi"
    title: "Ursula Bellugi"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Bellugi"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump