A history of Division 6 (behavioral neuroscience and comparative psychology): Now you see it. now you don't. Now you see it.

Dewsbury, Donald A.

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“…Her behavioral investigations of intersensory learning were mainstream comparative psychology, as were her innovative studies of category learning that bridged animal research with human clinical neuropsychology. In a definitive history of Division 6, Dewsbury (1996) described Martha Wilson (along with Brenda Milner, Karl Pribram, Mortimer Mishkin, and a few others) as "regulars who kept Division 6 alive" (p. 55). Dr. Wilson served as the organization's temporary Secretary-Treasurer when Division 6 was reestablished in 1963, after its 14-year period of merger with Division 3, and she was elected to this office again for 1969-1971.…”

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Martha Helson Wilson

Washburn¹

2020

Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior

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Helson (1900-1979?). Martha Alice was practically raised on college campuses, principally at Bryn Mawr where her father was professor of psychology for many years. Her mother had earned undergraduate and master's degrees in French literature before marrying; later, she authored several published remedial-reading texts, workbooks, and teacher manuals. When World War II broke out, Dr. Helson moved his family to Foxboro, MA, for several years to work on Navy-funded human-factors research. Martha Alice was sent back to a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania, where she would graduate from Westtown Friends School in 1946 before enrolling in Bryn Mawr College. Martha was encouraged by her father to prepare for a career as a psychiatrist to bring scientific rigor to the area that was still dominated by psychoanalytic thought, and indeed she completed all

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Section: Selected Significant Accomplishmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%