# Alan Cowey

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**Alan Cowey** (28 April 1935 – 19 December 2012) was a British scientist and academic,[1] and the Emeritus Professor of Physiological Psychology at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford). His primary interest was in the way in which we interpret the visual world.[1] He gained a BA from the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) in 1957 and a PhD from Cambridge in 1961.[2] He was elected a [Fellow of the Royal Society](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society) in 1988, and a Fellow of the [Academy of Medical Sciences](/source/Academy_of_Medical_Sciences) in 1998. In 2000 he received an honorary DSc from the [University of Durham](/source/University_of_Durham),[2] and in 2007 he presented the Royal Society's [Ferrier Lecture](/source/Ferrier_Lecture).[3]

## References

1. Passingham, Dick (2018). "Alan Cowey. 28 April 1935—19 December 2012". *Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society*. **66**: 101–122. [doi:10.1098/rsbm.2018.0017](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2018.0017)

1. ["Alan Cowey - Neuroscience"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090307013330/http://www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/directory/alan-cowey). [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford). Archived from [the original](http://www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/directory/alan-cowey) on 2009-03-07. Retrieved 2009-07-02.

1. ["The Ferrier Lecture (1928)"](http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?tip=1&id=1795). [The Royal Society](/source/The_Royal_Society). Retrieved 2009-07-02.

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