Wayne Wickelgren
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Wayne Allen Wickelgren | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 4, 1938 Hammond, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | November 2, 2005 (aged 67) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse |
Barbara Gordon-Lickey
(m. 1962–1972) |
| Children | 5 |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.) |
Wayne Allen Wickelgren was a professor of psychology at Columbia University.
Wickelgren was born on June 4, 1938, to Herman and Alma Larson Wickelgren. He graduated from Hammond High School.[1]
Education
Wickelgren attended Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude with the Class of 1960. He studied social relations. He received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962.[2]
Career
In 1962, Wickelgren started as an assistant professor in the Psychology department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3] While there, he rose to full Professor and researched problem-solving, learning, and language.[4]
In 1969, he started as a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon where he worked until 1987.[5] From 1987 until his death in 2005, he was an Adjunct Research Scientist at Columbia University.[6]
Wicklegren's work was used by James McClelland and David Rumelhart to develop the Wickelphone which is a sequence of 3 letters or symbols used together in a word.[7]
He was a member of the International Neural Network Society, the Society for Neuroscience, the Psychonomic Society, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Society for Mathematical Psychology.[citation needed]