Merlin DONALD Professor, Department of Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Canada
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1968 | Ph.D. McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
1968-1970 | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
1970-1972 | Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Cross Appointment) |
1972-1973 | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen's University |
1974-1982 | Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen's University |
1980-1990 | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University (Research Cross Appointment) |
since 1982 | Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen's University |
since 1995 | Professor, Faculty of Education, Queen s University (Cross-Appointment) |
Mitgliedschaften
Member Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science | |
Member Cognitive Neuroscience Society | |
Member Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness | |
Member Cognitive Science Society | |
Member Language Origins Society |
Publikationen
1991 Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 413pp | |
2001 A Mind So Rare: The evolution of human consciousness. New York: W. W. Norton, 365 pages | |
1998 Hominid enculturation and cognitive evolution. In C. Renfrew and C. Scarre, eds, Cognition and Culture: the Archaeology of Symbolic Storage. University of Cambridge, U.K., Monographs of The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 7-17 | |
1999 Preconditions for the evolution of protolanguages. In M. C. Corballis and I. Lea, eds, The Descent of Mind, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 120-136 |
Auszeichnungen
Fellow, Canadian Psychological Association | |
Killlam Research Fellow | |
Fellow Royal Society of Canada | |
Visiting Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, Stanford University |