In Memorium (Sridhar Kalluri )

Subject: In Memorium From: Sridhar Kalluri <sridhar_kalluri@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:42:59 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY> --0016368e1ae9cec86c046fde3c2d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I am posting this message on behalf of Prof. Ervin Hafter. Sridhar --- Dear Auditory list followers. Last week saw the passing of a dear friend and admired colleague, Mark R Rosenzweig. Long before I met him, I knew about him from the classic paper on the Precedence Effect: Wallach H, Newman EB, Rosenzweig MR. Precedence effect in sound localization. Am J Psychol 1949;62:315-336 Professsor Rosenzweig was on the Berkeley Faculty in the late 1950s when a new building, Tolman Hall, was built for Psychology. Of great personal importance for me is that he insisted on including the superb anechoic chamber that we still use. While Mark began in Berkeley studying the physiology of sound localization, his work moved steadily into the physiology of learning and memory and so, the department advertised, in 1965, an opening for a young faculty in hearing. To my eternal gratitude, I was at the right time and place (having recently finished a degree with Lloyd Jeffress), and got hired. Although the profound Rosenzweig and Krech research on learning was far removed from Mark's roots in the Psychoacoustic Lab at Harvard, he was a good friend and mentor to me, introducing me to interesting people, keeping tabs on my progress and, most important of all, impressing me with the life-long pleasure that a could be derived from this rather wonderful profession. Mark was a superb lecturer, speaking with clarity and authority on nearly every aspect of physiological psychology; indeed, the incredible undergraduate text book that he, Arnie Leiman and Marc Breeedlove wrote on the topic continues to be an encyclopedia for many of us. He was also a consummate raconteur whose presence in a dinner party, whether at his house or yours, made it a delightful experience. Its been 60 years since 1948 when Lloyd Jeffress published his remarkable Place Theory for Sound Localization, a paper still demands interest, admiration and a bit of controversy. What a moment in history, with Hebb's publication in 1949 of Organization of Behavior. It is in that context that I observe that 1949 also produced a beautiful treatise on binaural precedence that began an interest that is still a hot topic. I sent this note to the auditory list because Wallach, Newman and Rosenzweig (1949) is still so widely quoted in audition. However, if any of you wishes to see where one of our founders went, scientifically, I suggest that you look at the web site of the Society of Neurosciences which has republished a brief autobiography by Mark Rosenzweig. http://www.sfn.org/skins/main/pdf/history_of_neuroscience/hon_vol_5/c14.pdf Erv Hafter --- --0016368e1ae9cec86c046fde3c2d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I am posting this message on behalf of Prof. Ervin Hafter.=A0 Sridhar <b= r>--- <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3D= utf-8"><meta name=3D"ProgId" content=3D"Word.Document"><meta name=3D"Genera= tor" content=3D"Microsoft Word 12"><meta name=3D"Originator" content=3D"Mic= rosoft Word 12"><s= tyle>  </style> Dear Auditory list followers. Last week saw the passing of a dear friend and admired colleague, Mark R Rosenzweig. Long before I met him, I knew about him from the classic paper on the Precedence Effect: =A0 Wallach H, Newman EB, Rosenzweig MR. Precedence effect in sound localizatio= n. Am J Psychol 1949;62:315-336 Professsor Rosenzweig was on the Berkeley Faculty in the late 1950s when a new building, Tolman Hall, was built for Psychology. Of great<= br> personal importance for me is that he insisted on including the superb anec= hoic chamber that we still use. While Mark began in Berkeley studying the physio= logy of sound localization, his work moved steadily into the physiology of learn= ing and memory and so, the department advertised, in 1965, an opening for a young<b= r> faculty in hearing. To my eternal gratitude, I was at the right time and pl= ace (having recently finished a degree with Lloyd Jeffress), and got hired. Although the profound Rosenzweig and Krech research on learning was far removed from= Mark's roots in the Psychoacoustic Lab at Harvard, he was a good friend= and mentor to me, introducing me to interesting people, keeping tabs on my progress and, most important of all, impressing me with the life-long pleasure that a could be derived from this rather wonderful profession. Mark was a superb lecturer, speaking with clarity and authority on nearly every aspect of physiological psychology; indeed, the incredible undergraduate text book th= at he, Arnie Leiman and Marc Breeedlove wrote on the topic continues to be an encyclopedia for many of us. He was also a consummate raconteur whose presence in a dinn= er party, whether at his house or yours, made it a delightful experience. Its been 60 years since 1948 when Lloyd Jeffress published his remarkable P= lace Theory for Sound Localization, a paper still demands interest, admiration and a bit of controversy. What a moment in history, with Hebb's publication in 1949 of Organizati= on of Behavior. It is in that context that I observe that 1949 also produced a beautiful tr= eatise on binaural precedence that began an interest that is still a hot topic. I sent this note to the auditory list because Wallach, Newman and Rosenzweig (1949) is still so widely quoted in audition. However, if any of you wishes to see where one o= f our founders went, scientifically, I suggest that you look at the web site = of the Society of Neurosciences which has republished a brief autobiography by Mark Rosenzwei= g. <a href=3D"http://www.sfn.org/skins/main/pdf/history_of_neuroscience= /hon_vol_5/c14.pdf">http://www.sfn.o= rg/skins/main/pdf/history_of_neuroscience/hon_vol_5/c14.pdf</a><span= style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> Erv Hafter --- <input id=3D"gwProxy" type=3D"hidden"><input onclick=3D"jsCall();" i= d=3D"jsProxy" type=3D"hidden"><div id=3D"refHTML"></div> --0016368e1ae9cec86c046fde3c2d--

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