11 Facts About Richard Gregory

Richard Gregory was the son of Christopher Clive Langton Gregory, the first director of the University of London Observatory, and his first wife, Helen Patricia.

Richard Gregory was made an Honorary Fellow of Downing in 1999.

Richard Gregory was founding editor of the journal Perception, which emphasized phenomenology and novel percepts produced by new stimuli.

Richard Gregory collaborated with W E Hick for the latter's influential paper "On the rate of gain of information".

Richard Gregory has called Hermann von Helmholtz one of his major inspirations.

Richard Gregory appeared on, or was an advisor to, numerous science-related television programmes in the UK and worldwide.

Richard Gregory wrote and edited several books, notably Eye and Brain and Mind in Science.

Richard Gregory's ideas ran counter to those of the American direct realist psychologist JJ Gibson, whose 1950 The Perception of the Visual World was dominant when Richard Gregory was a younger man.

Richard Gregory argued that optical illusions, such as the illusory contours in the Kanizsa triangle, demonstrated the Bayesian processing of perceptual information by the brain.

In 1953, Richard Gregory married Margaret Hope Pattison Muir, by whom he had a son and a daughter.

Richard Gregory was survived by two children, two grandchildren, and his long-term companion, Priscilla Heard.