Bennett I. Bertenthal
Bennett I. Bertenthal is the James H. Rudy Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. He is the author of over 100 publications on action understanding, the development of perception and action, developmental cognitive neuroscience, visual processing of motion information, perception and production of biological motions, multimodal communication, and science policy. During his career he has received numerous federal and private foundation grants, and served as the founding Director of the NSF funded Social Informatics Data Grid (SIDGrid). He has lectured extensively on the social and behavioral sciences and science policy in the U.S. and abroad, and has served on various national advisory committees including the National Science and Technology Council subcommittees concerned with basic science and fundamental research on children. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, and the American Psychological Association. Bertenthal served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 2007 - 2010. Prior to his appointment at IU, he was Professor of Psychology and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, and a Senior Fellow of the Computation Institute. He served as the Assistant Director of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1996 - 1999.
Phone: 812-856-0958 / Email: bbertent@indiana.edu
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
1101 E. Tenth Street
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN. 47405 |
