Jacques Mehler

Jacques Mehler (Born in Barcelona in 1936) is an influential cognitive psychologist specializing in language acquisition.

Education

Mehler studied chemistry at Universidad de Buenos Aires from 1948 to 1951. After that, he went to Oxford University and University College of London where he obtain his B. Sc. degree. From 1961 to 1964, he studied at Harvard University, at the time of the cognitive revolution, where he worked with George A. Miller and obtain a PhD. in Psychology.

Career

Mehler is Emeritus at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he directed the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (LSCP) he is currently the head of the Language, Cognition and Development lab at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste (Italy). He was editor in chief of the journal Cognition until 2007. In 2001, Mehler was elected a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.