Mark Turner (cognitive scientist), Date of Birth
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American cognitive scientist
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About Mark Turner (cognitive scientist)
- Mark Turner (born 1954) is a cognitive scientist, linguist, and author.
- He is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University.
- He has won an Anneliese Maier Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2015) and a Grand Prix (Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises) from the French Academy (1996) for his work in these fields.
- Turner and Gilles Fauconnier founded the theory of conceptual blending, presented in textbooks and encyclopedias.
- Turner is also the director of the Cognitive Science Network (CSN) and co-director of the Distributed Little Red Hen Lab.
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