Elissa L. Newport is the George Eastman Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester. Her primary research interest is in human language acquisition, including naturalistic studies of children learning their first languages, experimental studies of infants, adults, and non-human primates learning miniature languages in the lab, fieldwork on emerging sign languages, and fMRI studies on language and the brain.  She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from U. Penn in 1975. She was a Sloan Fellow in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Penn and MIT and a recipient of the Claude Pepper Award of Excellence from NIH.  Newport currently serves on the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences and is the Chair-Elect of Section J (Psychology) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Cognitive Science Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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