Language and the Learning Curve

Anat Ninio received a BA in Statistics & English Linguistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1965 and a second BA in Psychology in 1969, followed by an MA in 1970 and a PhD in 1974, the latter two under the supervision of Professor Daniel Kahneman, specializing in Cognitive Psychology. She spent a year of post-doctoral studies with Professor Jerome Bruner at Oxford, studying early language development. Since 1970 she has been on the faculty of theHebrew University. She has been a Visiting Scholar/Professor at Duke University, New School for Social Research, New York University, University of Quebec, Harvard University, Macquarie University and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.She served as chair of the Graduate Developmental Program, the Dept of Psychology and the Sturman Human Development Center, and is currently serving as Chair of the Martin and Vivian Levin Center for the Normal and Psychopathological Development of the Child & Adolescent at the Hebrew University. She is an Associate of Behavioural and Brain Sciences and member of the Unesco Institute for Education Exchange Network on Functional Literacy in IndustrializedCountries.