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Richard Held
Richard Marx Held | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 22, 1922 New York, NY |
| Died | November 22, 2016 Northampton, MA |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University, Swarthmore College, Columbia University, Stuyvesant High School |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Vision research, Gestalt Psychology |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Trained shifts in binaural direction finding: Their implications for the genesis of auditory space (1952) |
| Doctoral advisor | Stanley Smith Stevens |
| Other academic advisors | Georg von Békésy Meyer Schapiro Wolfgang Köhler |
Richard Marx Held (October 10, 1922 – November 22, 2016) was an American professor (emeritus at the time of his death) of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1][2][3] He conducted some of the first research into visual perception of infants and children. He held a Civil Engineering degree from Columbia University,[4] and earned a PhD in experimental psychology on auditory space perception from Harvard University.[5][6][7] In 1973, Held was named to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his achievements in psychology.[8] He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[9][10]
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