The human conceptual repertoire poses a formidable challenge to the cognitive sciences. Humans are the only species who can ponder orders of infinity, the...
Professor (Emeritus) Co-founded the Vision Sciences Lab at Harvard Research in Visual Neuroscience and Perception
Patrick Cavanagh received a degree in Engineering from McGill University in 1968. An interest in artificial intelligence led to a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie-Mellon in 1972. He taught at the Université de Montréal in Psychology until 1989 and was a professor of Psychology at Harvard. Along with Ken Nakayama, he founded the Vision Sciences Laboratory at Harvard in 1990. In 2007 he accepted a Chaire d’Excellence at the Université Paris Descartes. In 2015 he became a Distinguished Research Professor at Dartmouth College. ... Read more about Patrick Cavanagh
Work in our laboratory focuses on four general topics; we study: 1) the neural substrate underlying visual mental imagery... Read more about Stephen M Kosslyn
Professor (Emeritus) Co-founded the Vision Sciences Lab at Harvard Visual Psychophysics in Perceptual Oraganization, Visual Attention, Visual Memory, and Face Perception
Research interests: Phenomenology of visual perception, visuo-motor coordination and its perception, and individual differences