Richard Marx Held was an American professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
18 Facts About Richard Held
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Richard Held conducted some of the first research into visual perception of infants and children.
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Richard Held held a Civil Engineering degree from Columbia University, and earned a PhD in experimental psychology on auditory space perception from Harvard University.
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In 1973, Held was named to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his achievements in psychology.
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Richard Held was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Richard Held researched how a person learns to locate sound by displacing their ears with padded earphones attached to two microphones.
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The kittens were exposed to light only under regulated test conditions to allow Richard Held to examine the correlation between movement and sight in vision development.
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In 1978, Richard Held found that impediments to vision in babies, such as drooping eyelids, should be treated immediately to prevent long-term vision impairment.
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Richard Held worked with Ernst Poppel and Douglas Frost in 1983 in an experiment examining brain injured individuals who appeared blind but still showed localized responses to light.
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Richard Held was an adjunct professor at the New England College of Optometry pursuing the study of the development of myopia revealed by aging subjects.
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MIT Professor Emeritus Richard Held worked with Pawan Sinha researching in India to answer Molyneux's Question through Project Prakash.
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In 1984, Richard Held found that from four to six months old, females have a more highly developed visual cortex than males.
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Richard Held was working with the staff of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary to develop tests for detecting visual abnormalities in infants and children in 1984.
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Richard Held found that infant astigmatism, if given optical correction, does not show neural loss.
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Richard Held presented his findings and method for testing visual acuity in babies at a vision symposium sponsored by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Richard Held's test involved a baby being shown two patches of light in a dark room.
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Richard Held married Doris Bernays, the daughter of Edward Bernays and Doris Fleischman, in 1951 in New York.
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On November 22,2016, Richard Held died in Northampton, Massachusetts at the age of 94.