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Archives of the History of American Psychology

The University of Akron

Robert M. Boynton, Papers (1924 – 2005)

PAPERS: 1957 -1990

VOLUME: .75 linear feet (M3421-M3422)

ACCESS: No restrictions

PROCESSED BY: Mark Bloom

DATE: October 2006

Biographical Note

Robert Merrill Boynton was born in 1924 in Evanston, Illinois. He received his Doctorate of Philosophy from Brown University in 1952. That same year he started teaching as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester (NY). Boynton founded the Center for Visual Science in 1963 where he continued his work studying color vision using psychophysics. He joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego in 1974. Boynton continued working on Physiological optics there until he retired in 1991.

* Information from Boynton autobiography

Scope and Content

This very small collection consists of reports Boynton completed for the U.S. Air Force, his annotated visual science papers and his autobiography.

Inventory

Box 1:

Laboratory Studies Pertaining to Visual Air Reconnaissance

Overlap as a Predictor of Form Discrimination Under Suprathreshold Conditions.

Annotated Visual Science Papers Volumes 1 – 5

Box 2:

Autobiography: More About Bob than Most People Will Want to Know