[visionlist] Kurt-Koffka medal awarded to Prof. Martin S. Banks

[Karl Gegenfurtner]

Dear colleagues,

we are proud to announce that the Department of Psychology at Giessen
University awarded the Kurt-Koffka medal to Prof. Martin S. Banks from
the University of California at Berkeley.

The Kurt-Koffka award is meant to honor scientists who advanced the
fields of perception or developmental psychology to an extraordinary
extent. The award reminds of Kurt Koffka, who is well-known as a pioneer of
Gestalt Psychology, in particular in the fields of perception and child
development. Koffka worked in Giessen for 16 years, from 1911 to 1927.

This was the first time that the Kurt-Koffka medal was awarded. In a
ceremony that took place on November 14, 2007, Prof. Banks was honored
for his numerous achievements in the fields of infant perception, depth
perception, navigation and heading and of multimodal integration.

On behalf of the nominating comittee for the Koffka medal,

Karl Gegenfurtner
-- 
Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner, Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie
Justus-Liebig-Universität, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10, 35394 Giessen
phone:  +49 641 9926100	  mailto:gegenfurtner at uni-giessen.de
fax:    +49 641 9926119	  http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/karl