"...see how a masterful theorist revisualizes
"...this book might hold a key to one of humanity's
one of the oldest subdisciplines of psychology."
longstanding mysteries."
Dan Simons, author of The Invisible Gorilla
Stanislas Dehaene, author of Reading in the Brain
Made New Scientist "Top Books of 2009" Story
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WSJ,
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MARK CHANGIZI,
changizi@2ai.org,
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RECENT NEWS
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See also Nature,
NPR.
MSNBC,
PBS News Hour,
Discovery.
"Mark Changizi...one of most brilliant & creative psychologists of his generation"
and related stories
in Technology Review by Christopher Mims,
and in Fastcodesign by John Pavlus.
Forbes,
Times Union
(video),
LA Times,
AOL News,
MARK CHANGIZI
is an evolutionary neurobiologist aiming to grasp the ultimate foundations underlying
why we think, feel and see as we do. His
research
focuses on "why" questions, and he has made important discoveries such as on why we see
in color, why we see illusions, why we have forward-facing eyes, why letters are shaped
as they are, why the brain is organized as it is, why animals have as many limbs and
fingers as they do, and why the dictionary is organized as it is.
He
attended
the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, and then went on
to the University of Virginia for a degree in physics and mathematics, and to the University
of Maryland for a PhD in math. In 2002 he won a prestigious Sloan-Swartz Fellowship in
Theoretical Neurobiology at Caltech, and in 2007 he became an assistant professor in
the Department of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2010 he
took the post of Director of Human Cognition at a new research institute called 2ai Labs.
He has more than thirty scientific journal
articles, some of which have been covered in
news venues
such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and Wired.
He has written three books,
THE BRAIN FROM 25,000 FEET (Kluwer 2003),
THE VISION REVOLUTION (Benbella 2009)
and
HARNESSED: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man (Benbella 2011).
He is working on his fourth book, this one on emotions and facial expressions, called
MAKING FACES: What Our Emotional Expressions Say, and How They Say It.
Some praise for THE VISION REVOLUTION
(Book excerpt in WSJ):
"...fascinating book...", in a story on the best books of 2009
-- Amanda Gefter, New Scientist, Aug 25, 2010
"...may have a big effect on our understanding of the human brain."
-- Invisible Gorilla author Dr. CChris Chabris, Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2009.
"...will make you wonder the next time you notice someone blush"
-- Melinda Wenner, Scientific American MIND, July 2009
"...surprising, overturning theories that have dominated primatology since the 1970s"
-- Jennifer Curry, Barnes & Noble Spotlight Review, July 13, 2009
"...challenges common notions regarding sight. ...keep[s] them... dazzled."
-- Professor R. H. Cormack, Publishers Weekly (starred review), May 11, 2009
"...unusual in range & quality of his ideas, the clarity & humour with which he can lay them out."
-- Mind Hacks' Dr. Tom Stafford,
The Psychologist, June, 2010
"...interesting and challenging new theories."
-- Professor Adrian G. Dyer,
Quarterly Review of Biology, June, 2010
"...see how a masterful theorist revisualizes one of the oldest subdisciplines of psychology."
-- Invisible Gorilla's Dan Simonss,
PsychToday, Nov, 2010.
The book has also been mentioned in interviews in the
New York Times and
Scientific American,
