Elizabeth Bates

Elizabeth Ann Bates (July 26, 1947 – December 13, 2003) was a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. She was an internationally renowned expert and leading researcher in child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, aphasia, and the neurological bases of language, and she authored 10 books and over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these subjects. Bates was well known for her assertion that linguistic knowledge is distributed throughout the brain and is subserved by general cognitive and neurological processes.

Elizabeth Bates
Born
Elizabeth Ann Bates

(1947-07-26)July 26, 1947
Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
DiedDecember 13, 2003(2003-12-13) (aged 56)
San Diego, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSaint Louis University
University of Chicago
Known forResearch on the cognitive, neural, and social bases of language
Scientific career
FieldsLanguage acquisition
Cognitive science
Cognitive neuroscience
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Diego
University of Colorado
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