Background
Walk, Richard David was born on September 25, 1920 in Camp Dix, New Jersey, United States. Son of Arthur Richard and Elsie (Roberts) Walk.
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This volume on intersensory perception and sensory integration is the second volume of the series, Perception and Perceptual Development: A Critical Review Series. The topic of the volume is timely, for in recent years, many investigators have noted that information about any natural event is obtained by a perceiver from a variety of sources. Such an observation immediately leads to the question of how this information is synthesized and organized. Of course, the implication that there are several discrete input channels that must be processed has come under immediate attack by researchers such as the Gibsons. They find it extremely artificial to regard natural information as being cut up and requiring cementing. Nevertheless, the possibility that during ontogene sis, perception involves the integration of separate information has attracted the attention of scholars concerned with both normal and abnormal development. In the case of normal development, a lively controversy has arisen between those who believe perceptual develop ment goes from integration toward differentiation and those who hold the opposite view. In the case of abnormal psychological development such as learning disabilities, many workers have suggested that percep tual integration is at fault. In thinking about the issues raised in this volume, we are particularly indebted to our former teachers and colleagues: Eleanor and James Gibson, T. A. Ryan, Robert B. MacLeod, and Jerome Bruner. We are pleased to acknowledge the secretarial help of Karen Weeks in the preparation of this volume.
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Walk, Richard David was born on September 25, 1920 in Camp Dix, New Jersey, United States. Son of Arthur Richard and Elsie (Roberts) Walk.
AB, Princeton University, 1942. Master of Arts, University Iowa, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1951.
Research associate Human Resource Research Office,, George Washington University, Washington, 1952-1953; from associate professor to professor, George Washington University, Washington, 1959-1991; assistant professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1953-1959; professor emeritus, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1991. Visiting professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1965-1966, London School Economics, U. London, 1981.
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Served to lst lieutenant United States Army, 1942-1945, European Theatre of Operations, 1951-1952. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society. Member American Psychological Association, Society for Research in Child Development, Psychonomic Society, British Psychological Association (foreign associate), Sigma Xi, Veterinary Office of Strategic Services.
Clubs: Princeton Terrace (New Jersey). Princeton, Harvard (Washington).
Married Lois MacDonald, April 1, 1950. Children: Joan MacDonald Scharf, Elizabeth Walk Robbins, Richard David Junior.
