Grover Cleveland Gilmore (born January 7, 1950) is an

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and was Dean of the

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from 2002 to 2021. He is known for work funded by the

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studying changes in visual perception that are associated with healthy aging and with

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. His hypothesis is that a portion of the cognitive problems associated with aging and the memory problems in Alzheimer's disease may be attributed to sensory decline and not to higher order cognitive functions. Gilmore received his bachelor's degree in psychology from

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in 1971. He then attended

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, earning an M.A. in 1974 and a Ph.D. in 1975. He has taught at Case Western since 1975. In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "

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,Gottfredson, Linda (December 13, 1994).

. ''

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'', p A18." an editorial written by

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and published in the ''

'', which declared the consensus of the signing scholars on issues related to the controversy about intelligence research that followed the publication of the book ''

The Bell Curve ''The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life'' is a 1994 book by the psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and the political scientist Charles Murray in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influe ...

''. He is also on the editorial board of ''

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''.

References

External links

Grover C. Gilmore page
via CWRU

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