Alan M. Leslie

Alan M. Leslie

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Alan M. Leslie is a Scottish psychologist and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive science at Rutgers University where he directs the Cognitive Development Laboratory.

Education

Leslie completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh in 1974 and received his D.Phil. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford in 1979/80.

Academic career

For a number of years he was a Medical Research Council Senior Scientist at the University of London. He joined the faculty at Rutgers University in 1993. He has also worked as a visiting professor at the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid, Spain, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2005 he gave the XIII Kanizsa Memorial Lecture at the University of Trieste and in 2006 he was the inaugural recipient of the Ann L. Brown Award for Excellence in Developmental Research. In 2008 Dr. Leslie was designated a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science [http://www.psychologicalscience.org/fellows/] and he was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [http://www.amacad.org/news/new2008.aspx] .

Research

Leslie was a member of the team in London who, in 1985, discovered the theory of mind impairment in autism. Autism manifests as the inability to communicate with others, and an obsession with a restricted repertoire of activities. In 1985 Alan Leslie, along with Simon Baron-Cohen and Uta Frith, published the famous article "Does the autistic child have a 'theory of mind'?" in which it was suggested that children with autism have particular difficulties with tasks requiring the child to understand another person's beliefs.

He is interested in the design of the cognitive system early in development. He has contributed a number of influential experimental studies and theoretical ideas on the perception of cause and effect, object tracking, and agent detection in infancy, the developmental role of modularity of mind, and the Theory of Mind Mechanism (ToMM) in the development of social cognition and its impairment in autism.

Family

His daughter, Sarah-Jane Leslie, is an assistant professor of philosophy at Princeton University.

References

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* Citation
last = Leslie
first = Alan M.
year = 1987
title = Pretense and Representation: The Origin of 'Theory of Mind'
publisher = Psychological Review
volume = 94
issue = 4
pages = 412-426
url = http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~aleslie/Leslie%201987b%20Psychological%20Review.pdf
accessdate = 2008-01-24

* [http://www.psychologicalscience.org/fellows/ 2008 Fellows of the American Psychological Society]

External links

* [http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~aleslie/index.html Cognitive Development Lab at Rutgers University]
* [http://www.psico.units.it/convegni/kanlect/2005/index.php3 XIIIth Kanizsa Memorial Lecture]


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