Daphne Maurer
Fellow
Current Employer
McMaster University
Election Year
2007
Academy
Academy of Social Sciences
Discipline
Psychology
Department
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
Keywords
Developmental plasticity, child development, synaesthesia, aesthetics, visual perception
Long Citation
Daphne Maurer is an internationally acclaimed researcher who has examined long-standing scientific and philosophical issues regarding the perceptual world of infants. Professor Maurer's research overturned William James' view that infants experienced a 'blooming, buzzing confusion', and instead perceived an organized world of forms and colours. Her research also showed that perception changes substantially during development. Daphne's work during the past three decades has described these perceptual changes and linked them to anatomical and physiological changes in the brains of infants and children with and without visual abnormalities. She is one of the most highly regarded developmental scientists in the world today.
Short Citation
Daphne Maurer is an internationally acclaimed researcher who has examined long-standing scientific and philosophical issues regarding the perceptual world of infants. Professor Maurer's research overturned William James' view that infants experienced a 'blooming, buzzing confusion', and instead perceived an organized world of forms and colours. She is one of the most highly regarded developmental scientists in the world today.
Daphne Maurer is an internationally acclaimed researcher who has examined long-standing scientific and philosophical issues regarding the perceptual world of infants. Professor Maurer's research overturned William James' view that infants experienced a 'blooming, buzzing confusion', and instead perceived an organized world of forms and colours. Her research also showed that perception changes substantially during development. Daphne's work during the past three decades has described these perceptual changes and linked them to anatomical and physiological changes in the brains of infants and children with and without visual abnormalities. She is one of the most highly regarded developmental scientists in the world today.
Short Citation
Daphne Maurer is an internationally acclaimed researcher who has examined long-standing scientific and philosophical issues regarding the perceptual world of infants. Professor Maurer's research overturned William James' view that infants experienced a 'blooming, buzzing confusion', and instead perceived an organized world of forms and colours. She is one of the most highly regarded developmental scientists in the world today.