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Your topic is Lisa Feigenson who works in the field of child psychology with a focus on changes in children's thinking across the lifespan, cognitive abilities, and development of numerical abilities. Here is a link to her faculty profile: http://pbs.jhu.edu/directory/lisa-feigenson/ Your group members are Joseph Ahmed and Michael Yarbrough. Please work in this sandbox. All of your group members’ contributions will be visible.

Lisa Feigenson (birth year and place) is a psychologist and professor known for her research in the fields of cognitive primitives that are available throughout the human lifespan, and the changes in children’s thinking through experience and maturing..... (Write a brief summary about the psychologist's are of interest and briefly mention any major awards or publications. You can also add a link to the psychologist's external website.)

Biography

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Lisa Feigenson is co-director of the Johns Hopkins University Laboratory for Child Development. She focuses on cognitive psychology, the study of mental process in all stages of life (infants,children,adults) Her primary focus is currently involved with the adolescent studying the cognitive thinking behind numbers and why some tend to struggle with mathematical situations.

She helps to develop the next generation of the world by teaching and taking part in research about the mental thinking process for all ages of life and what effects it. She has found many different ideas and ways on how infants use cognition to process the world around them and when infants make a prediction about what they know and they see its false they tend to show more of an interest to this and use it to learn. Mention a notable publications (especially books) that she wrote.

Honored on Jan. 23 by the National Academy of Sciences for her extraordinary scientific achievements in neuroscience and psychological and cognitive sciences she was one of few recognized for her efforts and ability to show extensive research in her field. Her research on cognition in infancy is the foundation of young children's mathematical reasoning and learning.

Not only has she excelled in scholar work she has participated in many researches for all ages trying to help understand the thinking process and how many factors lead to the way people think, on many occasions she has been recognized for her research in the psychology field, she has accomplished and been gifted prestigious awards.

Research

Lisa Feigenson is known for her studies in relation to cognitive processes, and studies of children's maturation.

mental development, learning the central questions driving the field of developmental psychology.
Cognitive psychology, Seven studies explored the empirical basis for claims that infants represent cardinal values of small sets of objects implying that children represent cardinal values of small sets of objects.

Research topic 3, findings, and implication

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External links

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