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17 Facts About Stephen Kosslyn

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Stephen M Kosslyn was born on 1948 and is an American psychologist and neuroscientist.

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Stephen Kosslyn is a former chair of the psychology department and dean of social sciences at Harvard University.

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Stephen M Kosslyn was an early contributor to cognitive science and then was one of the founders of cognitive neuroscience.

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Stephen Kosslyn is best known for his work on mental imagery, the neural bases of visual cognition, and the science of learning.

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Stephen Kosslyn found that people could detect more details of objects in their mental images when they mentally "zoomed in" on them.

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Stephen Kosslyn proposed a detailed theory of how visual information is stored and accessed in the brain during cognition.

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Stephen Kosslyn applied principles from cognitive science to improve how people learn.

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Stephen Kosslyn developed evidence-based guidelines for creating effective PowerPoint slides and other forms of visual communication.

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Stephen Kosslyn drew on cognitive science to increase student engagement in digital environments.

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Stephen Kosslyn devised concrete ways to design online courses based on how memory and attention work.

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Stephen Kosslyn attended graduate school at Stanford University and received a PhD in psychology from Stanford in 1974.

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Stephen Kosslyn was codirector of the Mind of the Market Lab at Harvard Business School and was an associate in the department of neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

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In 2010, Stephen Kosslyn was appointed director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

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Stephen Kosslyn then was the founder and chief academic officer of Foundry College, an online two-year college.

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The report noted that Stephen Kosslyn did not disclose Epstein's donations in the accompanying documents.

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Stephen Kosslyn was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and Academia Rodinensis pro Remediatione.

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Stephen Kosslyn has published over 350 scientific papers and written or co-authored 16 books and edited or co-edited 14 books, including the following:.