| LC control no. | n 79119142 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour) |
| Variant(s) | Bruner, Jerome Pu-lu-na Bruner, Jerome Seymour |
| Associated place | Cambridge (Mass.) Oxford (England) |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1915-10-01 |
| Death date | 2016-06-05 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Cognitive psychology |
| Affiliation | Harvard University New York University University of Oxford |
| Profession or occupation | Psychologists |
| Found in | His Public thinking on post-war problems, 1943. His How children come to talk, c1983: CIP t.p. (Jerome Bruner) Chʻen, F.C. Pu-lu-na chiao yü ssu hsiang chih yen chiu, 1982 (subj.) t.p. (Pu-lu-na) NLM files, 5/9/87 (hdg.: Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour); usage: Jerome S. Bruner, Jerome Bruner) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1915) Washington post WWW site, viewed June 8, 2016 (Jerome S. Bruner, who was born blind and, after having his sight restored, spent the rest of his life trying to understand how the human mind perceives the world, leading to influential advances in education and the development of the field of cognitive psychology, died June 5 [2016] at his home in New York City; he was 100; during a 70-year academic career, Dr. Bruner was a restless researcher who constantly moved from one field to another; the basis of his work was the study of cognition, or what he called "the great question of how you know anything"; but he freely touched on fields as diverse as music, physics, literature, sociology and the law, drawing connections between cognitive perceptions and judicial decision-making; with George A. Miller, Dr. Bruner established the [Harvard University] Center for Cognitive Studies in 1960; For the past 30 years, while teaching at New York University's law school, Dr. Bruner explored the idea of storytelling as a fundamental way of understanding the nature of the world around us; Jerome Seymour Bruner was born Oct. 1, 1915, in New York City; received master's and doctoral degrees in psychology from Harvard in 1939 and 1941, respectively; joined the Harvard faculty in 1945, then left in 1972 to teach at the University of Oxford in England; returned to the United States in 1980, teaching first at the New School in New York, then joining NYU) |
| Associated language | eng |
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