Stephen kosslyn biography

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Stephen Michael Kosslyn is an American psychologist and neuroscientist He is a former dean of social sciences at Harvard University.
Stephen Michael Kosslyn (born 1948) is an American psychologist, neuroscientist, former John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James and.

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Stephen Kosslyn

Dr. Kosslyn is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and an Associate Psychologist in the Department of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Kosslyn received his B.A. in 1970 from UCLA and his Ph.D.from Stanford University in 1974, both in psychology. He taught at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Brandeis Universities before joining the Harvard Faculty as Professor of Psychology in 1983. Kosslyn's work focuses on the nature of visual mental imagery and high-level vision, as well as applications of psychological principles in visual display design. His books include Image and Mind (1980), Ghosts in the Mind's Machine (1983), Wet Mind: The New Cognitive Neuroscience (with O. Koenig, 1992), Elements of Graph Design (1994), and Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery

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Dr. Stephen M. Kosslyn

Stephen M. Kosslyn is currently Dean of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute). He perviously served as Director of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University and Dean of Social Science and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology at Harvard University; he was also Associate Psychologist in the Department of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

He has focused on the study of the brain and played a role in founding the field of Cognitive Neuroscience. His research has focused primarily on the nature of visual mental imagery, visual perception, visual communication and the science of learning. Professor Kosslyn has authored or coauthored 13 books and over 300 papers on these topics.

Professor Kosslyn has received the American Psychological Association's Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist Award, the National Academy of Sciences Initiatives in Research Award, the Cattell Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the J-L. Signoret Prize (France), three honorary Doctorates, and election to Academia

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Stephen Kosslyn

Stephen Michael Kosslyn (born in 1948) is an American psychologist. He is currently a professor of psychology and chair of the department of psychology at Harvard University and a researcher in the fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

Kosslyn received his B.A. in 1970 from UCLA and his Ph.D. in 1974 from Stanford University, both in psychology. His former teaching career includes Johns Hopkins and Brandeis Universities.

Kosslyn is mostly known for his research and theories on mental imagery. His theory is that, contrary to common assumption, imagery is not a unified phenomenon. It consists of a collection of numerous distinct functions; these functions are responsible for different aspects of imagery. His research, which includes fMRI-imaging and similar techniques, has located these functions to different neural networks, some of which are in different cerebral hemispheres of the brain. For example, his laboratory demonstrated that the left hemisphere is much better at encoding categories and producing mental images on the basis of catego