Charles W. Eriksen

Charles Walter Eriksen (February 4, 1923 – February 16, 2018)[1][2] was an American psychologist who was the editor of Perception & Psychophysics from 1971 to 1993. Eriksen was a leading academic psychologist researching the field of visual perception. He developed the Eriksen flanker task.[3]

Early life

Eriksen's early life was spent in Omaha, Nebraska. He was keen on fishing, and pranks.[3] He studied at the University of Nebraska, and did a PhD in clinical psychology at Stanford University because the queue for psychology was shorter than the one for physics.[3] His first job in 1950 was at Johns Hopkins University as a clinician and experimenter doing two part times jobs.[3]

Perception

Eriksen's publication of the flanker test has been heavily cited.[4]

References

1. Charles Eriksen
2. Lappin, Joseph S.; Logan, Gordon D.; Fournier, Lisa R.; Hoffman, James E. (July 2018). "Charles "Erik" Eriksen (1923-2018)". Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 80 (5): 1030–1034. doi:10.3758/s13414-018-1532-9. PMID 29869150.
3. Kramer, Arthur; Coles, Michael; Eriksen, Barbara; Garner, Wendell; Hoffman, James; Lappin, Joseph (January 1994). "Charles Eriksen Past, present, and future". Perception & Psychophysics. 55 (1): 1–8. doi:10.3758/BF03206874.
4. Eriksen, Barbara A.; Eriksen, Charles W. (January 1974). "Effects of noise letters upon the identification of a target letter in a nonsearch task". Perception & Psychophysics. 16 (1): 143–149. doi:10.3758/bf03203267.

External links

• Botella, Juan (23 January 2014). "Entrevista a Charles W. Eriksen". Estudios de Psicología (in Spanish). 18 (57): 73–78. doi:10.1174/021093997320972061.