Background
Bellugi, Ursula was born on February 21, 1931 in Jena, Germany. Daughter of Max J. and Edith (Kaufmann) Herzberger.
( What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramati...)
What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech, that there are primary linguistic systems passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into antonomous languages and are not derived front spoken languages.
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( A blueprint for the investigation of neurodevelopmental...)
A blueprint for the investigation of neurodevelopmental disorders, this book presents the work of a team of scientists using a multidisciplinary, integrated approach to link genes with human behavior. Using Williams syndrome as a model, leading researchers in neuroanatomy, neurocognition, neurophysiology, and molecular genetics have built bridges between disciplines to link higher cognitive functions, their underlying neurobiological bases, and their molecular genetic underpinnings. One of the book's many strengths is that the scientists from each discipline studied the same individuals with Williams syndrome. As the book shows, Williams syndrome is a fascinating disorder because of the "peaks and valleys" among cognitive domains: severe intellectual deficits but remarkably spared and effusive language; specific impairment in spatial construction but great strength in face processing and sociability. By capitalizing on these dissociations in higher cognitive functioning, the book provides a model for the study of brain-behavior relationships as well as for the mapping of brain and behavior phenotypes to the genome and beyond. Contributors: Ralph Adolphs, Twyla Alvarez, Lawrence Appelbaum, Ursula Bellugi, Dennis Burian, Xiao-Ning Chen, Michael Chiles, Stephan Eliez, Albert Galaburda, Hanao Hirota, Wendy Jones, Julie Korenberg, Zona Lai, Liz Lichtenberger, Alan Lincoln, Rumiko Matsuoka, Debra Mills, Helen Neville, Judy Reilly, Allan Reiss, Bruce Roe, Marie St. George, J. Eric Schmidtt, Erica Straus.
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Bellugi, Ursula was born on February 21, 1931 in Jena, Germany. Daughter of Max J. and Edith (Kaufmann) Herzberger.
Bachelor, Antioch College, 1952. Doctor of Education, Harvard University, 1967.
Senior research assistant, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964-1967;
assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967-1968;
member, Salk Institute Biological Studies, San Diego, 1968-1969;
research associate, Salk Institute Biological Studies, San Diego, Massachusetts, 1969-1974;
associate research professor, Salk Institute Biological Studies, San Diego, Massachusetts, 1974-1981;
professor, Salk Institute Biological Studies, San Diego, Massachusetts, since 1981;
director Laboratory for Cognitive Neurosci., Salk Institute Biological Studies, San Diego, Massachusetts, since 1970. Adjunct Professor University of California, San Diego, since 1977. Visiting professor Consiglio Nationale delle Ricerche, Rome, 1981.
Member of advisory county National Institute on Deafness and Communicative Disorders, since 1989. Member panel human development study section National Institutes of Health, 1975-1979, member behavioral and neurosciences fellowship panel, since 1981. Member governor board Center for cognitive Neuroscience, 1990.
Trustee Salk Institute, 1980-1991.
( What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramati...)
( A blueprint for the investigation of neurodevelopmental...)
Fellow American Psychological Association (Distinguished Science Contribution award 1992). Member Academy Aphasia, Academy Neurology, European Brain and Behavior Society, International Brain Research Organization, International Neuropsychol. Society, Linguistic Society of America, Psychonomic Society, American Psychology Society, society Research in Child Development, Society Neurosci, National Academy of Sciences.
Married Edward S. Klima. Children: David, Robin.