Jean Matter Mandler (born November 1929) is Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego and visiting professor at University College London.
Mandler's early research was on animal learning[1] and in the 1960s she worked on textual analysis, including the development of a widely used story grammar.
[2] Starting in the 1970s she turned to developmental problems with special emphasis on early conceptual development which culminated in her influential book on the foundations of mind.
Mandler is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Society of Experimental Psychologists.
[4] The couple later had two sons, Peter Mandler (Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge) and Michael Mandler (Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK).