Jacques Mehler

Born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1936, Jacques Mehler is an influential cognitive psychologist.

He studied in the 1960s at Harvard University, at the time of the cognitive revolution, where he worked with George A. Miller. 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 is editor in chief of the journal Cognition. In 2003, Mehler was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Jacques Mehler