Richard Held

Richard Marx Held
BornOctober 22, 1922
New York, NY
DiedNovember 22, 2016
Northampton, MA
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University, Swarthmore College, Columbia University, Stuyvesant High School
OccupationProfessor
EmployerMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forVision research, Gestalt Psychology
Scientific career
ThesisTrained shifts in binaural direction finding: Their implications for the genesis of auditory space (1952)
Doctoral advisorStanley Smith Stevens
Other academic advisorsGeorg 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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