:Emily Bushnell

{{short description|American psychologist}}

Emily W. Bushnell (born 1950) is an American psychologist and emeritus professor of psychology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. Her areas of professional interest include child development, infant perception, haptic perception and acquisition of perceptual-motor skills.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3nYWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT67|title=Learning Through Touch: Supporting Children with Visual Impairments and Additional Difficulties|last=McLinden|first=Mike|last2=McCall|first2=Stephen|date=2016-04-29|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136609541|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9rwmg-maFdYC&pg=PA364|title=Language, Memory, and Cognition in Infancy and Early Childhood|last=Benson|first=Janette B.|last2=Haith|first2=Marshall M.|date=2010-05-22|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=9780123785763|language=en}} Professor Bushnell received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1979 and a BA in psychology from Swarthmore College in 1972.{{Cite web|url=http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty/pdfs/retiredFaculty/bushnell.pdf|title=Resolution on the Retirement of Professor Emily Bushnell|date=2013|website=Tufts University|access-date=2017-10-04}} She served as chair of the Tufts Psychology Department from 1993 to 1996 and sat on the editorial board of the journal Child Development.{{cite web | url=https://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/people/bushnell/index.htm | title=Tufts University, Department of Psychology: People | publisher=Tufts University | accessdate=2017-10-04 }}