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Larry Marks, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)
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Environmental Health Sciences

290 Congress Avenue, John B. Pierce Laboratory

New Haven, CT 06519

United States

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Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)

Biography

Lawrence Marks, PhD, studies how humansensory systems transduce and process patterns of stimulus energy, and how the resulting information is encoded and represented in perception and cognition. Current work focuses largely on developing sensory-cognitive models of multisensory (gustatory and olfactory) perception of flavors and, more generally, on theoretical implications of multisensory processing for perception and cognition. A second topic, of long-standing interest, is synesthesia, the 'transfer' of sensory qualities across modalities, as when synesthetes perceive speech sounds or music to have distinctive and consistent colors – including the roles of language and culture in synesthetic experiences.

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Education & Training

Post-doctoral
Harvard University (1966)
PhD
Harvard University (1965)

Research

Overview

  • Mechanisms of Multisensory Flavor Identification
  • Interactions of Cognitive and Sensory Processes in Flavor Perception
  • Synesthesia in Perception and Language

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Cognition; Olfactory Perception; Psycholinguistics; Psychophysics; Sensory Thresholds; Taste Perception

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Larry Marks's published research.

Publications

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2014

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • activity

    American Synesthesia Association

  • activity

    Vantage Group

  • honor

    Winslow Centennial Honor Roll for Excellence and Service

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    Member

  • honor

    Fellow, Society of Experimental Psychologists

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Environmental Health Sciences

290 Congress Avenue, John B. Pierce Laboratory

New Haven, CT 06519

United States

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  • Pierce Laboratories

    Academic Office

    290 Congress Avenue

    New Haven, CT 06519

  • Pierce Laboratories

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    290 Congress Avenue

    New Haven, CT 06519