Janellen Huttenlocher

Janellen Huttenlocher was the William S. Gray Professor of Psychology as well as Program Chair for Developmental Psychology at the University of Chicago. She received the 2002 G. Stanley Hall Award for Lifetime Achievement in Developmental Psychology from the American Psychological Association. She developed the unified exploration of cognitive development and adult cognition, with important discoveries in a variety of domains, including language, number, and space. Her hierarchical coding model has been applied to space, time, and categories and is at the forefront of Bayesian thinking about cognition. Huttenlocher’s impact in the field of psychology included co-authoring the books Making Space: The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning and Quantitative Development in Infancy and Early Childhood, as well as publishing hundreds of research articles. Her scholarship spanned 60 years from her first publication in 1956 to her last in 2015. Professor Huttenlocher was a member of the American Psychological Association, the Cognitive Development Society, Psychonomic Society and the Society for Research in Child Development. She has served on editorial boards of the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, as well as Psychological Review. She has also served on the Behavioral Development Study Section of the National Institute of Child Health and Development and on the National Science Foundation Panel on Memory and Cognition.