1. Hans-Lukas Teuber was a professor of psychology and head of the psychology department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
12 Facts About Hans-Lukas Teuber
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Hans-Lukas Teuber was one of the founders of neuropsychology and studied perception.
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Hans-Lukas Teuber gave the classic definition of agnosia as "a normal percept stripped of its meaning".
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Hans-Lukas Teuber was the recipient of the Karl Spencer Lashley Award in 1966.
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Hans-Lukas Teuber was born in Berlin on August 7,1916.
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Hans-Lukas Teuber studied at the French College in Berlin and at the University of Basel in Switzerland.
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Hans-Lukas Teuber immigrated to the United States in 1941 and in August of the same year married Marianne Liepe.
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Hans-Lukas Teuber's thesis studied the efficacy of psychiatric treatments on delinquent adolescents.
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Hans-Lukas Teuber's work focused on assessing brain injuries from World War II veterans, with a focus on the effects of frontal lobe injury.
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In 1960, Teuber moved to Massachusetts to start a Department of Psychology at MIT after previous attempts had failed.
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Hans-Lukas Teuber hired Jerry Fodor, Thomas Bever, and Merrill Garrett.
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Hans-Lukas Teuber died in a sailing accident in the Virgin Islands.