Elizabeth Spelke

Elizabeth Spelke is a cognitive scientist known for studying how infants and young children develop the basic skills for understanding the world. She researchess how people, from a very early age, have innate abilities to perceive objects, numbers, and space. Her work suggests that humans are born with core knowledge that helps us learn language, mathematics, and science. Spelke’s findings have important implications for education and understanding human cognition, highlighting that some abilities are part of our natural, developmental foundation.