He received his B.A. in Cognitive Science from Hampshire College in 1989 and his Ph.D. from MIT’s Department of Brain in Cognitive Sciences in 1993. From 1993 to 1997, he taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research on language acquisition and computational modelings has been published in journals such as Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Child Language and the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. His book, The Algebraic Mind is being published by MIT Press. On the editorial boards of Cognition and Developmental Psychology, in 1996, Marcus received the Robert L. Fantz award for new investigators in cognitive development.