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Charles Gordon Gross (February 29, 1936 – April 13, 2019) was an American professor of psychology and a neuroscientist and a leading figure in the emerging field of cognitive neuroscience.
Charles (Charlie) Gordon Gross, professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, emeritus, who revolutionized the understanding of sensory processing and pattern recognition, died April 13 in Oakland, California. He was 83.
Charlie Gross is retiring this year after forty-three years on the faculty of the psychology department. With his pioneering research on the primate visual system, Charlie revolutionized our understanding of sensory processing and pattern recognition.
Charles Gordon Gross was unconventional from the moment he was born on a leap day, February 29, 1936, to Communist parents (a “red-diaper baby”). Charlie was, by his own account, a mediocre young student, but he turned it around.
Charles Gordon Gross was unconventional from the moment he was born on a leap day, February 29, 1936, to Communist parents (a ‘‘red-diaper baby’’). Charlie was, by his own ac-count, a mediocre young student, but he turned it around.
Charles Gordon Gross, Professor of Psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, emeritus, died Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Oakland, California. He was 83. Gross retired from Princeton University in 2013 after forty-three years on the faculty.
Charlie Gross and his colleagues described the properties of single neurons in inferior temporal cortex of the macaque and their likely role in object and face recognition.
