Alan Cowey FMedSci, FRS (28 April 1935 – 19 December 2012) was a British scientist and academic, and the Emeritus Professor of Physiological Psychology at the

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. His primary interest was in the way in which we interpret the visual world. He gained a BA from the

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in 1957 and a PhD from Cambridge in 1961. He was elected a

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in 1988, and a Fellow of the

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in 1998. In 2000 he received an honorary DSc from the

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, and in 2007 he presented the Royal Society's

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Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge British neuroscientists Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Fellows of the Royal Society People educated at Bede Grammar School for Boys 1935 births 2012 deaths {{UK-biologist-stub