#  Professors Emeriti 

 



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  [### Alfonso Caramazza

 ](/people/alfonso-caramazza) <caram@wjh.harvard.edu>Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology, Emeritus

 

 

 A number of specific issues concerning the structure of lexical forms and their relation to grammatical, morphological and semantic information are being pursued. These issues are addressed through research with brain-damaged and normal subjects. The... 

 

 

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   [### Ken Nakayama

 ](/people/ken-nakayama) <ken@wjh.harvard.edu>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 Ken Nakayama received his BA from Haverford College and PhD from UCLA. Originally trained in the field of visual... 

 

 

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   [### Patrick Cavanagh

 ](/people/patrick-cavanagh) <patrick@wjh.harvard.edu>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... 

 

 

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   [### Stephen M Kosslyn

 ](/people/stephen-m-kosslyn) <skosslyn@gmail.com>Professor (Emeritus)

 

 

 Work in our laboratory focuses on four general topics; we study: 1) the neural substrate underlying visual mental imagery (for example, we have used PET and fMRI to show that many of the same structures that are involved in object recognition are also... 

 

 

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   [### Susan E. Carey

 ](/people/susan-e-carey) <scarey@wjh.harvard.edu>Professor (Emeritus)

 

 

 The human conceptual repertoire poses a formidable challenge to the cognitive sciences. Humans are the only species who can ponder orders of infinity, the causes and cure of global warming, or any of literally billions of propositions formulated over the... 

 

 

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