William Reichenstein Uttal (March 24, 1931 – February 5, 2017) was an American psychologist and engineer known for his criticism of

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, and for his advocacy for distributed neural processing. In Uttal's obituary in the ''

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wrote that "His distinguished academic career is difficult to classify, but his specialty probably should be put under the heading " cognitive science"." He was married for 64 years to Michiye May Nishimura Uttal. He has three daughters: Lynet Uttal, Taneil Uttal, and Lisa Meek Uttal.

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