Director and Fellow
The John B. Pierce Laboratory

Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Psychology
Yale University School of Medicine

Laboratory:
Sensory Information Processing

E mail: marks@jbpierce.org
Telephone: (203) 562-9901,
ext. 230

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Education

AB, Hunter College, City University of New York, 1962
PhD, Harvard University, 1965

Biographical Sketch

After a post-doctoral year at Harvard, Marks came to the Pierce Laboratory in 1966. He was promoted to Fellow in 1984 and became the Director in 1999. Originally trained as a cognitive psychologist specializing in language, Marks has devoted most of his scientific career to elucidating human sensory and perceptual processes. Among his awards and honors are election as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society, a Jacob Javits/Claude Pepper Award from the National Institutes of Health, and an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University.