Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker

male, 55 years old
linguist, Cognitive scientist, The Language Instinct, Harvard University faculty, scientist, evolutionary psychology…perception
Steven Pinker , a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University in 1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After teaching...
Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake

male, 67 years old
perception, pseudoscientific, morphogenetic field, English, Parapsychologist, Pseudoscience
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 75 scientific papers and ten books. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he...
George Berkeley

George Berkeley

male, deceased (1753)
Anglican bishop of Cloyne, objects, sense, Irish spiritual writer, from County Kilkenny, University of California, Berkeley…perception
George Berkeley (12 March 1685 - 14 January 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical...
Hermann von Helmholtz

Hermann von Helmholtz

male, deceased (1894)
University of Bonn faculty, laws of nature, chemical thermodynamics, electrodynamics, physiology, philosopher…perception
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 - September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist. In the words of the 1911...
Max Wertheimer

Max Wertheimer

male, deceased (1943)
tachistoscope, Charles University alumni, holistic, perception, Jewish person, gestalt psychology
Max Wertheimer was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology. Wertheimer studied law for more than two years, but decided then to change to...
Edward T. Hall

Edward T. Hall

male, 95 years old
Columbia University, Illinois Institute Of Technology, Bennington College, perception, Environmental psychology, United States State Department
Edward T. Hall (born May 16 1914) is a respected anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. Born in Webster Groves, Missouri, Hall has taught at...
Al Seckel

Al Seckel

male, 51 years old
Cornell University alumni, retina, perception, visual, retinal, American
Al Seckel (born 1958) is an American authority on visual and other types of sensory illusions, and how they relate to perception. Seckel collects,...
H. H. Price

H. H. Price

male, deceased (1984)
Old Wykehamist, from Glamorgan, Alumni of New College, Oxford, New College, Oxford, neath, parapsychology…perception, philosophy of perception
Henry Habberley Price was a British philosopher, known for his work on perception. He also wrote on parapsychology. Born in Neath, Glamorganshire,...
Anne Treisman

Anne Treisman

female (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Princeton University, Jeremy Wolfe, Guided Search, visual attention, feature integration theory, feature integration theory of attention…perception
Anne Treisman is a psychologist, working currently at Princeton University, Department of Psychology. She researches visual attention, object...
Robert Kegan

Robert Kegan

male
Psychologist, impulsive, interpersonal, The Evolving Self, Wiktionary impulsive, Psychological identity…perception
Robert Kegan is a developmental psychologist and the author of numerous books, including his most well-known work "The Evolving Self" (1982). In...