Lawrence Weiskrantz

Lawrence Weiskrantz (born 28 March 1926) is a British neuropsychologist, who discovered the phenomenon of blindsight, which is the voluntary visually evoked response to a stimulus presented within a scotoma.

Career

 * Part-time Lecturer, Tufts University, 1952
 * Research Associate, Inst. of Living, 1952-55
 * Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, US National Research Council, 1955-56
 * Research Associate, University of Cambridge, 1956-61
 * Assistant Director of Research, Cambridge, 1961-66
 * Reader in Physiological Psychology, Cambridge Univ., 1966-67.
 * Founding President of the European Brain and Behaviour Society, 1969
 * Professor of Psychology, Oxford University, and Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford 1967-1993; Professor Emeritus, 1993-.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980. He was on its council in 1988-1989 and its Ferier lecturer in 1989.

Publications

 * Analysis of Behavioural Change, 1967
 * The Neuropsychology of Cognitive Function, 1982
 * Animal Intelligence, 1985
 * Blindsight, 1986
 * Thought Without Language, 1988
 * Consciousness Lost and Found, 1997