Ellen Winner is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Boston College and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

She directs the Arts and Mind Lab, which focuses on cognition in the arts in typical and gifted children as well as adults.

Winner is the author of over 100 articles and three books--Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts (1982), The Point of Words: Children's Understanding of Metaphor and Irony (1988), and Gifted Children: Myths and Realities (1996)—and co-author of Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2007), Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2013).

Winner has served as President of APA's Division 10, Psychology and the Arts in 1995-1996, and received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior Scholar in Psychology and the Arts from Division 10 in 2000. She is a fellow of APA Division 10 and of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. ​