Professor
Barbara Landau
Johns Hopkins University
Psychologist; Educator; Academic research institution administrator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Psychological Sciences
Elected
2009
Dick and Lydia Todd Professor and Gilman Scholar, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University. Research focuses on language learning, spatial representation, and the relationships between these foundational systems of knowledge. It elucidates the representations guiding children's language learning, the nature of human representations of objects and locations, the recruitment of spatial representations in language learning and the relation of language to thought.
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