Linda B. Smith, Ph.D., is a Distinquished Professor and the Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Cognitive Science at Indiana University - Bloomington. She received her B.S. degree in 1973 from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and her Ph.D. in psychology from the Universityof Pennsylvania in 1977. She joined the faculty at Indiana University in 1977. Her research is directed to understanding developmental processes especially at it applies to early cognitive development and to the interaction of perception, action and language in that developmental process. She has published over 120 research articles and is co-author with Esther Thelen of A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action. Her research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Child Health and Development and the National Institute of Mental Health. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Psychological Science. You may find out more about her research and laboratory at www.iub.edu/~cogdev
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