TY - JOUR
AU - Gregory, Richard L
AB - Perception, 1983, volume 12, pages 233-238 Editorial Kenneth John William Craik (1914-1945) was an outstanding visual physiologist, especially on mechanisms of dark adaptation, and he was more than a scene-setter for computer-based psychological accounts of perception, learning, and skill. His early training in philosophy at Edinburgh was useful, as his only complete book, The Nature of Explanation (1943), demonstrates. It shows the power of explicit analogies from technological principles, as its central concepts are drawn, with brilliant imagination and cogent arguments, from the then newly invented analog predictor mechanisms of the Second World War. As the first Director of the Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Unit (the APU), in Sir Frederic Bartlett's Department at Cambridge, Craik was concerned with visual problems such as glare and adaptation, and also with matching new kinds of machines to men and comparing their performances. The Craik Laboratory at Cambridge is, of course, named after him. Tragically, he was knocked off his bicycle in Cambridge and so died, at the age of 31 . Craik's ideas were hardly known in the United States until several years after his death, and therefore they were not directly influential in the American development of Cybernetics; but Warren 
TI - Forty Years On: Kenneth Craik's The Nature of Explanation (1943)
JF - Perception
DO - 10.1068/p120233
DA - 1983-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/forty-years-on-kenneth-craik-s-the-nature-of-explanation-1943-mfHNBIsdjR
SP - 233
EP - 237
VL - 12
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -