- Lawrence Weiskrantz
Lawrence Weiskrantz (born
28 March 1926 ) is the British psychologist who discovered the phenomenon of blindsight, which is the voluntary visually evoked response to a stimulus presented within a scotoma.Career
* Part-time Lecturer, Tufts University, 1952
* Research Associate, Inst. of Living, 1952-55
* Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, US National Research Council, 1955-56
* Research Associate,University of Cambridge , 1956-61
* Assistant Director of Research, Cambridge, 1961-66
* Reader in Physiological Psychology, Cambridge Univ., 1966-67.
* Founding President of theEuropean Brain and Behaviour Society , 1969
* Professor of Psychology,Oxford University , and Fellow,Magdalen College, Oxford 1967-1993;Professor Emeritus , 1993-.He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society in 1980. He was on its council in 1988-1989 and its Ferier lecturer in 1989.Publications
* Analysis of Behavioural Change, 1967
* The Neuropsychology of Cognitive Function, 1982
* Animal Intelligence, 1985
* Blindsight, 1986
* Thought Without Language, 1988
* Consciousness Lost and Found, 1997References
Who's Who (UK) 2006
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