Randolph
Blake is Centennial Professor of Psychology, a Fellow of the Kennedy Center for Research in Human
Development and a member of the Vanderbilt Vision Research Center
and the Vanderbilt Center for Cognitive
and Integrative Neuroscience. From 2011 to 2015 he was a Foreign Scholar
and Professor in the newly formed Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Seoul
National University. Blake received the PhD from Vanderbilt University in
1972, with a dissertation on binocular vision. He was a NIMH Postdoctoral
Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine/University of Texas Health Sciences
Center, where he received training in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. Blake
was a faculty member at Northwestern
University from 1974 to 1988, where he studied human and animal vision,
with emphasis on spatial vision and motion perception. He moved to Vanderbilt
in 1988, where he was chair of the Department of Psychology for
eight years. His research interests expanded to include binocular vision and
perceptual organization, synesthesia, visual cognition and auditory/visual
interactions. Blake is a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
the Society for Experimental Psychologists, the Association for Research in
Vision and Ophthalmology and the Association for Psychological Science. He has
held the William Evans Chair at Otago
University and received the Early Career Award (American Psychological
Association) and a Career Development Award (NIH). In 2000, he received the Earl
Sutherland Prize, in 2006 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in
2008 won the Thomas
Jefferson Award and in 2012 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2006,
Blake received an IgNobel Prize for his research on the psychoacoustics
of a chilling sound. He is married to Elaine
Blake, herself an accomplished textile artist and vocalist. Blake's hobbies
include biking, gardening, music and collecting textiles and pottery.
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Randolph Blake
Vanderbilt University
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