Lawrence Weiskrantz
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Lawrence Weiskrantz FRS (28 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a British neuropsychologist. Weiskrantz is credited with discovering the phenomenon of blindsight, and with establishing the role of the amygdala in emotional learning and emotional behavior.[1] Blindsight is when a person with a brain injury causing blindness can nevertheless detect, point accurately at, and discriminate visually presented objects.[2]
Early life
Weiskrantz originally attended
Career
Weiskrantz became Professor of Psychology at Oxford University where he remained a full professor until retirement in 1993.
Academic and service positions he held included:
- 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 the European Brain and Behaviour Society, 1969
- Professor of Psychology, Oxford University, and Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1967–1993;
- Professor Emeritus, Oxford University, 1993–2018 and Emeritus Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1993–2018.
- Honorary President of European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
- Inaugural President of European Brain and Behaviour Society.
- President of Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness.
Weiskrantz supervised at least 10
.Honours
Weiskrantz was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980.[5][6] He was on its council in 1988–1989.[3] He was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and of Academia Europaea.[3] Weiskrantz served on the Council of the Fyssen Foundation.[3]
Weiskrantz was a medalist of the Royal Society of Medicine and a medalist of the American Association for Advancement of Science.[3] He delivered the Heisenberg Lecture of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences/Siemens Foundation and the Ferrier Lecture of the Royal Society.[3] In 1997 he was awarded with an honorary doctorate at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Selected publications
- Analysis of Behavioural Change, 1967
- The Neuropsychology of Cognitive Function, 1982
- Animal Intelligence, 1985
- Blindsight: A case Study and Implications, 1986 ISBN 0198521294
- Thought Without Language, 1988
- Consciousness Lost and Found, 1997
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-07-139011-8.
- ^ Weiskrantz, Lawrence (1986). Blindsight: A Case Study and Implications. Oxford University Press.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Professor Lawrence Weiskrantz". Magdalen College - University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ ISBN 978-0198524588.
- ^ "Lawrence Weiskrantz". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- S2CID 219181284.
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