Alison Gopnik
American psychologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1955 · age 71
Alison Gopnik is an American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the Berkeley AI research group.
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She is known for her work in the areas of cognitive and language development, including the effect of language on thought, the development of a theory of mind, and causal learning. Her writing on psychology and cognitive science has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Science, Scientific American, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, New Scientist, Slate and others. Her body of work also includes four books and over 160 journal articles.
