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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.
Charles (Charlie) Gordon Gross, professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, emeritus, who revolutionized the understanding of sensory processing and pattern recognition, died April 13 in Oakland, California. He was 83.
We guarantee that you’ve never met anyone quite like Charlie Gross, an iconoclast and pioneer who blazed a trail through the uncharted territories of the cerebral cortex. Charles Gordon Gross was unconventional from the moment he was born on a leap day, February 29, 1936, to Communist parents (a “red-diaper baby”).
Charles Gordon Gross, Professor of Psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, emeritus, died Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Oakland, California. He was 83. Gross retired from Princeton University in 2013 after forty-three years on the faculty.
Author. Charles G Gross 1. Affiliation. 1 Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. cggross@princeton.edu. PMID: 17620195. DOI: 10.1080/09647040600630160. Abstract. In 1870 Gustav Fritsch and Edvard Hitzig showed that electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex of a dog produced movements.
Charles G. Gross, A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2009. Pp. x+356. ISBN 978-0-262-01338-3. £25.95 (hardback).
Charlie Gross is retiring this year after forty-three years on the faculty of the psychology department. With his pioneering research on the primate visual system, Charlie revolutionized our understanding of sensory processing and pattern recognition.
