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Details for Professor Norman Freeman
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Norman Freeman |
| Job title | Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development Senior Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology |
| Department | School of Experimental Psychology University of Bristol School of Experimental Psychology University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | MA, PhD(Cantab), FBPsS |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | cognition development preschool theory of mind number drawing domain specific learning |
| Areas of expertise | I work in cognition, mostly trying to model and test hypotheses about representational development, where I have invented a few experimental techniques. I focused initially on picture-production and have moved to analysing the conceptual change in children’s beliefs about pictures, their theory of pictures. The application was in art-education, where I have been active. I published methods for posing simple pictorial puzzles, and rules for inferring children's strategies of bringing visual order onto a page. My second aim had been to acquire a range of cognitive research skills so as to be able flexibly to promote research as and when circumstances demanded. I transferred the same set of research habits collaboratively to publish refereed papers on topics as diverse as phonological impairment, effects of early cardiac surgery, semantic change, infant spatial search, theory-of-mind inference, early counting. |