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Peter Lennie
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; Professor of Neural Science; Dean for Science, Faculty of Arts and Science
Ph.D. 1972 (experimental psychology), Cambridge; B.Sc. 1969 (psychology) Hull.

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Research Interests:

Organization and function of the visual pathway, visual perception.

Affiliations:

National Research Council, Committee on Vision, 1990-1995; Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage Technical Committee TC 1-36, 1991-present; National Research Council, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive and Sensory Sciences, 1997-present; Society for Neuroscience; Optical Society of America; Physiological Society; Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.

Fellowships/Honors:

Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund 1972-1974; Fellow, King's College, Cambridge, 1973-1976; Merit Award, National Eye Institute, 1992-present; Perception Lecturer, 1993; Fellow, Optical Society of America.

Selected Works:

Single units and visual cortical organization. Perception, 27. 1998. 889-935.
Distinctive characteristics of subclasses of red-green P-cells, with Lankheet, M. J. M. and Krauskopf, J. Vis. Neurosci., 15. 1998. 37-46.
Color search and visual field segregation, with D'Zmura, M. and Tiana, C. Percept. Psychophys., 59. 1997. 381-388.
Spatio-temporal requirements for binocular correlation in stereopsis, with Lankheet, M. J. M. Vision Res., 36. 1996. 527-538.
Ganglion cell pathways for rod vision, with Fairchild, M. D. Vision Res., 34. 1994. 477-482.
Roles of M and P pathways. In Contrast Sensitivity, R. M. Shapley and D. M.-K. Lam, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1993. 201-213.

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