Lawrence Weiskrantz
Encyclopedia
Lawrence Weiskrantz is a British
psychologist, who discovered the phenomenon of blindsight
, which is the voluntary visually evoked response to a stimulus presented within a scotoma.
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.
Great Britain
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psychologist, who discovered the phenomenon of blindsight
Blindsight
Blindsight is a phenomenon in which people who are perceptually blind in a certain area of their visual field demonstrate some response to visual stimuli...
, 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 CambridgeUniversity of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, 1956-61 - Assistant Director of Research, Cambridge, 1961-66
- Reader in Physiological Psychology, Cambridge Univ., 1966-67.
- Founding President of the European Brain and Behaviour SocietyEuropean Brain and Behaviour SocietyThe European Brain and Behaviour Society is a scientific society founded in 1968 whose stated purpose is the exchange of information between European scientists interested in the relationships between brain mechanisms and behaviour. It is the oldest neuroscience society in the world...
, 1969 - Professor of Psychology, Oxford University, and Fellow, Magdalen College, OxfordMagdalen College, OxfordMagdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £153 million. Magdalen is currently top of the Norrington Table after over half of its 2010 finalists received first-class degrees, a record...
1967-1993; Professor Emeritus, 1993-.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
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, 1997