Ken Nakayama

Background

Nakayama, Ken was born on March 28, 1940 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States.

Education

Bachelor in Psychology, Haverford College, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy in Physiological Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1967.

Career

Postdoctoral fellow school optometry department physiology-anatomy, University of California, Berkeley, 1967-1969; assistant professor neurophysiology faculty medicine, Memorial U. Newfoundland, St. Johns, 1969-1971; associate scientist, Smith-Kettlewell Institute Visual Sciences, San Francisco, 1971-1978; senior scientist, Smith-Kettlewell Institute Visual Sciences, San Francisco, 1978-1980; associate professor, department chairman visual science, U. Pacific, San Francisco, 1975-1981; associate director, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, 1980-1990; professor department psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1990. Associate Neurosciences Research Program, New York City, since 1991. Lecturer Sloan Foundation Summer Course in Computational Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, 1985, 87, 92, McDonnell-Pew Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1990, Rockefeller U., 1992.

Achievements

• Ken Nakayama has been listed as a noteworthy Psychology educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Trustee Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, since 1989, vice president, 1993. Fellow Society Experimental Psychologists.