Alan M. Leslie is a Scottish psychologist and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive science at Rutgers University where he directs the Cognitive Development Laboratory.
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.
For a number of years he was a Medical Research Council Senior Scientist at ...
more
Alan M. Leslie is a Scottish psychologist and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive science at Rutgers University where he directs the Cognitive Development Laboratory.
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.
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 and he was also elected to...
less
