Tom Bever Awarded Regents' Honor

Bever is known as one of the founding fathers of cognitive science, a multidisciplinary field that investigates the nature of intellectual activity-perception, language, reasoning and the brain. He and members within the field conduct research to understand how the mind works and why it works the way it does.    
An unquenchable curiosity partnered with a diverse set of interests paved the road to a new field and some of the most innovative findings in the study of language and the mind.
Childhood curiosity and parental tolerance led to a giant ant hill in his bedroom. His interest in seeing how ants communicate with one another would lead him to aspire to a degree in...