Date: 7/9/2009 to 8/6/2009
by Christian Feuerstein ’94
Nora S. Newcombe, Ph.D. , is a Professor of Psychology at Temple University and PI of the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC), headquartered at Temple and also involving Northwestern, the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania as primary partners. A nationally recognized expert on cognitive development, Dr. Newcombe’s research has focused on spatial development and the development of episodic and autobiographical memory. Her work has been federally funded by NICHD and the National Science Foundation over 20 years. She is the author of numerous scholarly chapters and articles on aspects of cognitive development, and the author or editor of three books, including Making Space: The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning (with Janellen Huttenlocher) published by the MIT Press in 2000. Recent honors include the George Miller Award and the G. Stanley Hall Awards from APA, the Award for Distinguished Service to Psychological Science, also from APA, and the Women in Cognitive Science Mentor Award. She has also been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the Society of Experimental Psychologists.