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54
Citations
21329
World Ranking
4496
National Ranking
2495

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jean M. Mandler is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their academic work spans multiple fields, including Psychology, Arts and Humanities, and Engineering.

The primary areas of research focus include Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, and Automotive Engineering. Mandler's work covers several specific topics:

  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation

Throughout their career, Mandler has contributed to the understanding of how cognitive processes interact with language and perception. Their research explores the ways in which categorization influences language use and how metaphor shapes cognition. The investigation of syntax and semantics is also a notable aspect of their work, addressing linguistic variation and structure.

The spatial cognition and navigation topic indicates an interest in how individuals perceive and interact with physical and spatial environments, linking cognitive psychology with practical applications possibly related to navigation or spatial awareness.

Jean M. Mandler has been recognized by significant professional bodies during their career. Notably, they received the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 2007. Additionally, they were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Remembrance of things parsed: Story structure and recall☆

    Jean M. Mandler;Nancy S. Johnson

  • Stories, Scripts, and Scenes: Aspects of Schema Theory

    Jean Matter Mandler

  • How to build a baby: II. Conceptual primitives.

    Jean M. Mandler

  • The foundations of mind: Origins of conceptual thought.

    Jean Matter Mandler

  • How to build a baby: On the development of an accessible representational system☆

    Jean M. Mandler

  • Concept formation in infancy

    Jean M. Mandler;Laraine McDonough

  • Separating the sheep from the goats: Differentiating global categories ☆

    Jean M Mandler;Patricia J Bauer;Laraine McDonough

  • Perceptual and Conceptual Processes in Infancy

    Jean M. Mandler

  • Autonomic feedback: the perception of autonomic activity.

    George Mandler;Jean M. Mandler;Ellen T. Uviller

  • Understanding spatial relations: Flexible infants, lexical adults.

    Laraine McDonough;Soonja Choi;Jean M Mandler

  • One thing follows another: Effects of temporal structure on 1- to 2-year-olds' recall of events.

    Patricia J. Bauer;Jean M. Mandler

  • A tale of two structures: Underlying and surface forms in stories

    Nancy S. Johnson;Jean M. Mandler

  • Drinking and driving don't mix: inductive generalization in infancy

    Jean M. Mandler;Jean M. Mandler;Laraine McDonough

  • Memory for descriptive and spatial information in complex pictures.

    Jean M. Mandler;Richard E. Parker

  • The cradle of categorization: Is the basic level basic?

    Jean M. Mandler;Patricia J. Bauer

  • On defining image schemas

    Jean M. Mandler;Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas

  • Long-Term Memory for Pictures.

    Jean M. Mandler;Gary H. Ritchey

  • Thinking: from association to Gestalt

    Jean Matter Mandler;George Mandler

  • Early Sensitivity to Language-Specific Spatial Categories in English and Korean

    Soonja Choi;Laraine McDonough;Melissa Bowerman;Jean M Mandler

  • The deferred imitation task as a nonverbal measure of declarative memory

    Laraine McDonough;Jean M. Mandler;Richard D. McKee;Larry R. Squire

Frequent Co-Authors

George Mandler
George Mandler University of California, San Diego
Patricia J. Bauer
Patricia J. Bauer Emory University
Robyn Fivush
Robyn Fivush Emory University
Peter Bryant
Peter Bryant University of Oxford
Michael A. Wallach
Michael A. Wallach Duke University
Michael Cole
Michael Cole University of East London
Larry R. Squire
Larry R. Squire University of California, San Diego

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