Gary
Marcus author of the
The Birth of the
Mind (Basic
Books, 2004, translated into 6 languages) and editor
of The Norton Psychology
Reader, is an award-winning
Professor of Psychology at New York University, where he is director
of the NYU Center for Child
Language. His research,
published in leading journals such as Science,
Nature, Cognition,
and Psychological
Science, focuses on the evolution
and development of the human mind.
Marcus also enjoys writing for the general public, in
venues ranging from The New York Times
to
The Huffington
Post. His newest
book, Kluge: The
Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind,
will be
published in Spring 2008.
Recent media appearances include
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an article in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, April 13, 2008
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a television appearance on The Hour, April 7, 2008
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an extended interview on bloggingheads.tv