Birkbeck academic receives Wolfson Research Merit Award

Professor Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck’s Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, has been awarded a 2011 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, one of just 37 awarded nationally each year.

The award is both a recognition of Professor Mareschal’s contribution to research in his field and a five-year grant to fund his new research project into the emergence of basic reasoning skills in young children.

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Issued: 15 December 2011