Jacques Mehler
Jacques Mehler (17 August 1936 – 11 February 2020) was a cognitive psychologist specializing in language acquisition. Education Mehler studied chemistry and obtained his Licenciatura en Ciencias Quimicas at the Universidad de Buenos Aires from 1952 to 1958. After that, he went to Oxford University and University College of London where he obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1959. From 1961 to 1964, he studied at Harvard University, at the time of the cognitive revolution, where he worked with George A. Miller and obtained a PhD. in psychology. Career Mehler was Emeritus at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he directed the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (LSCP); he was also the head of the Language, Cognition and Development lab at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste (Italy). In 1982, He became a member of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics' Scientific Council in 1982. He was editor-in-chief of the journal Cognition until 2007. Mehler was elected a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003, and an international member of the American Philosophical Society in