Rochel Gelman

Rochel Gelman, born in 1942, is an American psychologist who is emerita professor of psychology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. Before joining Rutgers she taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is married to the psychologist C. Randy Gallistel. She is best known in this atlas as a doctoral supervisor of Renee Baillargeon, whose infant cognition work she helped shape. Her honors include membership of the National Academy of Sciences, the 1995 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, and fellowships of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Cognitive Science Society. She also sits on the scientific advisory board of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. The Wikipedia article on her is short, so this entry rests on its lead and honors section.