Charles Gordon Gross (February 29, 1936 – April 13, 2019) was an American professor of psychology and a neuroscientist who studied the sensory processing and pattern recognition in the cerebral cortex of macaque monkeys. He spent 43 years of his career at Princeton University. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and received his A.B. in 1957 from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1961. Afterward, he went on to work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he conducted pioneering research on the visual cortex of monkeys. Gross made many important discoveries in his career, including the finding that neurons in the inferior temporal cortex (ITC) are selectively activated by complex objects and the discovery of "face cells," neurons that are specifically activated by the sight of faces. He also discovered hand-selective neurons in the macaque cerebral cortex in 1969. Gross's work on the ITC and face perception was groundbreaking and helped to establish the field of neuroscience. He was recognized for his contributions with numerous awards and honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Gross was married to art historian Greta Berman from 1988-2000; and to writer

Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels '' Bla ...

from 2009 until his death 2019.

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