Ken Nakayama
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Ken Nakayama is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Harvard University.
Official webpage: http://visionlab.harvard.edu/Members/Ken/nakayama.html
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. He helped in the formation of Vision Sciences Society and was its president until recently. He is on the present VSS board as an Emeritus member. His students include Frank Tong, Brad Duchaine, Alison Harris, Jeremy Wilmer, Joo-Hyun Song, Brian Scholl, Arni Kristjansson , Nava Rubin , Yue Chen, Shinsuki Shimojo, Mary Bravo, Michael Paradiso, Richard Balliet,Garga Chatterji among others. His recent work on prosopagnosia has generated widespread interest in scientific circles and in the popular media. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1211572,00.html http://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2006/06/09/eline/links/20060609elin022.html http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/diseases/articles/2006/06/14/when_faces_have_no_name/
Official webpage: http://visionlab.harvard.edu/Members/Ken/nakayama.html
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