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.

CareerEdit

• 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.

PublicationsEdit

• 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

ReferencesEdit

Who's Who (UK) 2006