Stephen Kosslyn

Dr. Kosslyn is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and an Associate Psychologist in the Department of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Kosslyn received his B.A. in 1970 from UCLA and his Ph.D.from Stanford University in 1974, both in psychology. He taught at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Brandeis Universities before joining the Harvard Faculty as Professor of Psychology in 1983. Kosslyn's work focuses on the nature of visual mental imagery and high-level vision, as well as applications of psychological principles in visual display design. His books include Image and Mind (1980), Ghosts in the Mind's Machine (1983), Wet Mind: The New Cognitive Neuroscience (with O. Koenig, 1992), Elements of Graph Design (1994), and Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery