Professor Tom Bever named Regents professor
March 6, 2012
Thomas G. Bever, Regents Professor and Professor of Linguistics, Psychology, Cognitive Science & Neuroscience, The University of Arizona.
Prof. Bever's teaching and research focuses on the foundations of Cognitive and Linguistic Universals. He ordinarily works with a large number of independent study undergraduates, graduate students and colleagues: he works with students in each of the four programs listed above. Bever's research areas include: sentence comprehension, cerebral asymmetries in humans and animals, constraints on learning in humans and animals, spatial cognition in humans and animals, reading, aesthetics.
Prof. Bever's teaching and research focuses on the foundations of Cognitive and Linguistic Universals. He ordinarily works with a large number of independent study undergraduates, graduate students and colleagues: he works with students in each of the four programs listed above. Bever's research areas include: sentence comprehension, cerebral asymmetries in humans and animals, constraints on learning in humans and animals, spatial cognition in humans and animals, reading, aesthetics.