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Giordana Grossi

Giordana Grossi is a professor of psychology at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her research in the field of cognitive neuroscience focuses on the early stages of word recognition during reading in monolinguals and bilinguals. Her nonempirical scholarship examines the epistemological, theoretical, and methodological issues that characterize evolutionary psychology and much of sex different research, especially in relationship to their adoption of unidirectional and predetermined views of development. Her latest work is an in-depth analysis of the folk biology concept of “hardwiring” in the scientific literature and the problems associated with its use.