C. Randy Gallistel
Charles Ransom Gallistel (born May 18, 1941) is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University. He is an expert in the cognitive processes of learning and memory, using animal models to carry out research on these topics. Gallistel is married to fellow psychologist Rochel Gelman. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty he held positions at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was chair of the psychology department and Bernard L. & Ida E. Grossman Term Professor, and at the University of California, Los Angeles. Academic career Gallistel obtained his BA in psychology from Stanford University in 1963 and his PhD in physiological psychology from Yale University in 1966. He joined the faculty of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, where he became full professor in 1976. He moved to UCLA with his wife, Rochel Gelman, in 1989. They moved to Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, NJ in 2000, where they became co-directors of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. Gallistel was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and to the National Academy of Sciences (USA) in 2002. Research Gallistel has made experimental and theoretical contributions to