Exploring the Mind | What Children Can Teach Us About the Human Mind

When

Monday April 14, 2025: 6:00pm to 7:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

Description

How do young children make sense of the world? Are they limited to what they see, or can they think beyond the here and now? In this talk, Dr. Susan Gelman will discuss how children's reasoning about hidden, invisible, and abstract entities provides a unique and valuable window into the human mind. Indeed, our early capacity to look beyond the obvious underlies humanity's greatest strengths, such as our search for knowledge and meaning, as well as our gravest challenges, such as prejudice and social inequities.

Susan Gelman is the Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Classical Greek from Oberlin College and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is a developmental psychologist whose research focuses on children's concepts and language development.

This event is in partnership with the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan.

The Library intends to provide a live stream of this event pending the presenter's permission. Please check back closer to the event for additional updates.