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In Honor Of... Wendell R. Garner, PhD
Garner’s body of contributions spans six-decades and exerts a continuing influence on psychology’s directions. His seminal studies in psychophysics, discrimination, perception, and information processing helped define such concepts as channel capacity and ultimately trigger the cognitive revolution. He is best known for Uncertainty and Structure as Psychological Concepts (1962) and The Processing of Information and Structure (1974). The former book is the definitive work extending information theory into psychology. The latter volume, drawn from his Fitts Lectures, introduced and integrated several elegant experimental approaches to the central questions of pattern perception and dimensional interaction. Garner’s other contributions, which have had similar, far-reaching impact, include the concept of converging operations (from his 1956 Psychological Review paper, “Operationism and the Concept of Perception” with Hake and Eriksen); and his pathbreaking 1949 textbook in applied experimental psychology, Applied Experimental Psychology (joint with Chapanis and Morgan). Garner’s students from Yale and Johns Hopkins fondly remember Garner’s wife Barbara, who helped them get through the difficult moments of their graduate careers. Individuals Honoring Wendell Garner: Daniel Algom, Tel-Aviv University Donald Blough, Brown University James E. Cutting, Cornell University Larry Erlbaum John H. Flowers, University of Nebraska Richard Gottwald, Indiana University, South Bend Stephen Handel, University of Tennessee Stewart Hulse, Johns Hopkins University Shiro Imai, Hokkaido University *Gregory Lockhead, Duke University Lawrence Marks, Yale University Stephen Palmer, University of California, Berkeley *James R. Pomerantz, Rice University Marc Sebrechts, The Catholic University of America * FABBS would like to thank Dr. Greg Lockhead and Dr. James Pomerantz for nominating Dr. Garner for this honor and for leading the effort to spread the word about his nomination. Would you like to honor Dr. Garner? The easiest way to donate money to FABBS is through Google Checkout. You can securely pay by credit or debit card and know that we will receive your donation in a timely and effective manner. If you would prefer to donate via check, please download a copy of our Donation Form.
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Wendell R. Garner is the James Rowland Angell Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University. Among his most significant recognitions are his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1965, and his receiving the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in 1964 and American Psychological Foundation’s Gold Medal for Science of Psychology in 1999.