- Lawrence W. Barsalou
Lawrence W. Barsalou, born on November 3, 1951 in San Diego (California/USA), is a
psychologist and a cognitive scientist. He received a bachelors degree in Psychology from theUniversity of California , San Diego in 1977, and a Ph.D. in Psychology fromStanford University in 1981. Since then, Barsalou has held faculty positions atEmory University , theGeorgia Institute of Technology , and theUniversity of Chicago .His work addresses the nature of human knowledge, and its roles in
perception ,memory ,language , andthought . The current theme of his research is that the humanconceptual system is grounded in thebrain ’s modality-specific systems. Specific topics of interest include whether (and if so how) modality-specific systems implement symbolic operations andabstract concepts , which is one of the main tasks of current cognitive psychology. Other lines of research address the situated character of knowledge, the dynamic online construction of conceptual representations, the development of ad hoc categories to support goal achievement, the structure ofknowledge , and categorylearning .elected bibliography
* "Perceptual symbol systems". (1999) [http://www.bbsonline.org Behavioral and Brain Sciences] , 22, 577-609.
* "Cognitive psychology: An overview for cognitive scientists". (1992) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.External links
* [http://psychology.emory.edu/cognition/barsalou/index.html The homepage of Lawrence Barsalou at Emory University]
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