Peter Carpenter Dodwell also known as Peter Dodwell (1930-2006) was a Canadian psychologist who conducted sustained research on spatial vision..
Biography
Dodwell was born in India in 1930. He moved to England at an early age and completed his education there. He obtained degrees in philosophy and psychology from the University of Oxford. He then taught for three years at Birkbeck, University of London (1955-1958) and then moved to Canada where he worked in Queen's University at Kingston for the remainder of his career.[1] He was the Head of the Department of Psychology for nine years (1972-1981). He was elected President of the Canadian Psychological Association in 1985.[2]
Research
He spent his whole academic career researching aspects of perception and vision. This included research on encoding, spatial form, pattern discrimination, perceptual development, and perceptual adaptation. He was best known for his research on the application of the Lie group to form perception.[3] He was the Founding North American editor of the journal Spatial Vision.[4] This journal published a special issue in 1994 recognising his contribution.[5]
He was also concerned about broader issues and in his retirement wrote a book about the spiritual basis for human culture and creativity[6]
^Foster, David, H.; Humphreys, G. Keith (1994). "Invariance, recognition and perception: a special issue in honour of Peter C. Dodwell". Spatial Vision. 6 (1): 1–2.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Dodwell, Peter, C. (2000). Brave New Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"Peter Dodwell". Times Colonist. 23 September 2006. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
