Submitted by Administrator on Wed, 02/09/2015 - 17:15
September 2015 will witness two tributes to Professor Nicholas J. Mackintosh, FRS, who sadly died on 8th February 2015, following a short illness. Professor Mackintosh, who was Head of the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, from 1981 until 2002, was hugely influential in the fields of comparative psychology, and intelligence.
At the 27th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Comparative Psychology (SSPC), there will be a symposium in honour of Professor Mackintosh. Contributors to the symposium include Anthony Dickinson, Geoffrey Hall, Javier Campos, Victoria D. Chamizo (the symposium coordinator), and Gabriel Ruiz. The SSPC meeting will take place at the University of Seville from 9th to 15th September 2015.
From the 17th to 19th September 2015, the Pavlovian Society will hold its annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. The meeting will include a symposium to honour the contribution made to the field of Pavlovian conditioning by Professor Mackintosh.
The 9th July would have been Professor Mackintosh's 80th birthday. To mark the date his former student, Scott Barry Kaufman, wrote a touching tribute, Mentors Matter: In Loving Memory of Nicholas J. Mackintosh (1935-2015), which he published in his Beautiful Minds blog, part of the Scientific American Blog Network.