Mark Changizi Biography

Mark Changizi is a theoretical neurobiologist with a specialization in vision, cognitive science, and language. He was born in 1969 in Fairfax, Virginia, and attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology before attending the University of Virginia for mathematics and physics and the University of Maryland for a Ph.D. in mathematics. He received a coveted Sloan-Swartz Fellowship at Caltech in 2002, and he has been an assistant professor in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Department of Cognitive Science since 2007. His study attempts to understand the fundamental reasons why we think, feel, and perceive the way we do. He has made significant discoveries about why we see in color, why we see illusions, why we have forward-facing eyes, why letters are shaped the way they are, why the brain is organized the way it is, why animals have as many limbs and fingers as they do, and why the dictionary is organized the way it is by focusing on why questions. He has over thirty published scientific papers to his credit, with some of them featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today, Time Magazine, Reuters, ABC News, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Scientific American, Wired, Discover Magazine, and Live Science. HARNESSED: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man (Kluwer 2003), THE VISION REVOLUTION (Benbella 2009), and THE BRAIN FROM 25,000 FEET (Kluwer 2003). (Benbella 2011). He's working on his fourth nonfiction book, FORCE OF EMOTIONS, which is about emotions and facial expressions. At the same time, he's writing his debut novel, HUMAN 3.0.

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