Jonas Langer, Professor

Research Biography

My research on the evolution and development of cognition in human and nonhuman primates is currently expanding from two- to three-pronged. The first studies the origins and development of physical (e.g., causal), logical (e.g., classificatory), arithmetic (e.g., numerical) cognition in humans from early infancy on. The second studies the comparative development of these cognitions in humans, chimpanzees, and monkeys. The third, which is entirely new and just beginning, studies the maturation of brain activity (using fMRI measures) in 4 to 18 year old humans that attends their central conceptual development (e.g., of quantitative conservation judgments and of proportional reasoning). 

JONAS LANGER Research Biography, October 2003