[visionlist] Dan Kersten winner of the 2019 Koffka medal

[Karl Gegenfurtner]

Dear colleagues,

we are proud to announce that the Department of Psychology at Giessen
University awarded the 2019 Kurt-Koffka medal to Prof. Dan Kersten from
the University of Minnesota.

Dan will receive the medal and give a talk on “The scientific power 
of a perceptual demonstration” this Wednesday, June 26, in lecture
hall A1 of the Phil I campus in Giessen.

The Kurt-Koffka award is meant to honor scientists who advanced the
fields of perception or developmental psychology to an extraordinary
extent. The award reminds of Kurt Koffka, who is well-known as a 
pioneer of Gestalt Psychology, in particular in the fields of perception 
and child development. Koffka was Professor of Psychology in Giessen 
for 16 years, from 1911 to 1927.

More information about the Koffka-medal and previous winners
can be found at:
https://www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb06/psychologie/postertag-koffka/KKM

On behalf of the selection committee for the Koffka medal,

Karl Gegenfurtner
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Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner, Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie
Justus-Liebig-Universität, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10, 35394 Giessen
phone:  +49 641 9926100	  mailto:gegenfurtner at uni-giessen.de
fax:    +49 641 9926119	  http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/karl