Ken Nakayama
Ken Nakayama | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Haverford College UCLA |
| Known for | Prosopagnosia Super recognisers |
| Awards | Edgar D. Tillyer Award (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Vision science |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald B. Lindsley |
| Doctoral students | Peter Ulric Tse Sara Mednick |
Ken Nakayama is an American psychologist and the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He is well known for his work on prosopagnosia, an inability to recognize faces, and super recognisers, people with significantly better-than-average face recognition ability.[1][2][3] His most notable contribution comes from his works on surface processing in the visual system.[4][5]
He received his BA from Haverford College and PhD from UCLA. From 1971 to 1990, he was at the Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. Since then, he has been faculty at Harvard University.[6] He helped in the formation of the and served as its first president. In 2016, the Vision Sciences Society established the Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science in honor of his numerous significant contributions.[7] In 2017, he received the Edgar D. Tillyer Award from The Optical Society.[8]
References[]
- ^ Song, Sora (17 July 2006). "Do I Know You?". Time. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ Goldberg, Carey (14 June 2006). "When faces have no name". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ Keefe, Patrick Radden (15 August 2016). "The Detectives Who Never Forget a Face". The New Yorker. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Ken Nakayama, OSA living history". OSA Living history. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Visual surface representation: A critical link between lower-level and higher-level vision". scholar.google.de. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ^ Nakayama, Ken (15 September 2021). "Coming of Age in Science: Just Look?". Annual Review of Vision Science. 7 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1146/annurev-vision-100419-120946. ISSN 2374-4642. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
- ^ "The Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science". Vision Sciences Society. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Edgar D. Tillyer Award". The Optical Society. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
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