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Cosponsored by: Graduate Studies, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Plant Genomics Program, Physics Department and the University Writing Program Director of the Infant Language Learning Center and Professor of Psychology at New York University, Gary Marcus writes about his research on developmental cognitive neuroscience for both academic and popular publications.  “Through the integrated study of psychology, linguistics, and molecular biology,” he writes, “I aim to understand the origins of the human mind.”   His books include, Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind (2008), The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought (2004), and  The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectivism and Cognitive Science (2000).  He also edited a collection of the best of contemporary writing about human behavior, The Norton Psychology Reader (2006).  He regularly writes articles for Science, Nature, Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, and the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.