Taylor, Alexander

Social & Behavioural Sciences

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

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Department Institut de Neurociències

Address Bellaterra

Keywords

Comparative psychology
evolution of intelligence
intelligence testing
social cognition
causal cognition
statistical inference
planning
reasoning
domain-general thought

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I obtained my bachelor’s degree at Oxford University, and my PhD at the University of Auckland. I then worked as a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, before taking up a lectureship at the University of Auckland, where I was awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand both a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (2014-19), and the Prime Minister’s Emerging Scientist prize (2015). In 2022 I was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant (2023-2028) for my project ‘UNIPROB’.