Renee Baillargeon

Alumni Distinguished Professor and Center for Advanced Study Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Crafted highly original methods for assessing the conceptual competence of human infants. Experiments have revealed remarkably early abilities in the domains of naive physics, naive psychology, naive morality, and naive biology. Findings contribute to the understanding of the nature and course of cognitive development in infancy.

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Cognitive Science Society; and recipient of a Fyssen Foundation International Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind, University of California at Santa Barbara.