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According to Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, who arrived this year from MIT’s Brain and Cognitive Sciences department, the interdisciplinary approach is necessary to bring FAS sciences up to speed...
...Pinker said his work will be only tangentially related to the initiative, as he primarily focuses on the study of human language—a subject he said is not usually included in systems neuroscience. But he maintained that Harvard’s expansion in the field is exciting and hopes to benefit from its success...
Kirby and University President Lawrence H. Summers made increasing the size of the faculty a top priority last year, wooing several high profile professors such as psychologist Stephen Pinker and author Louis Menand...
...Pinker and Nowak, the two new recruits Summers often mentions, both do interdisciplinary work...
Although the hiring of Pinker and Nowak contributes to Summers’ focus on interdisciplinary work, many of the prominent senior faculty members who left Harvard last year also held joint appointments...