Katherine Nelson
Actor
Katherine Nelson is an American developmental psychologist, a distinguished professor emerita of psychology at the City University of New York.
Jerome Bruner describes Nelson as a "contextual functionalist": she seeks "the contexts that give human acts their meaning" while investigating the functions that these acts play in longer-term scenarios. She has also studied childhood amnesia and the development of episodic memory.
Katherine Nelson is an American developmental psychologist, a distinguished professor emerita of psychology at the City University of New York.
Jerome Bruner describes Nelson as a "contextual functionalist": she seeks "the contexts that give human acts their meaning" while investigating the functions that these acts play in longer-term scenarios. She has also studied childhood amnesia and the development of episodic memory.