| Michael von Grünau | |
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| Born | Michael von Grünau 1 January 1944 West Germany |
| Died | 22 December 2011 (aged 67) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | German and Canadian |
| Fields | Psychology, Neuropsychology |
| Institutions | Concordia University |
Michael von Grünau, BSc, MA, PhD (October 3, 1944 – December 22, 2011) was a Canadian psychologist and neurophysiologist at Concordia University.[1]
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Michael von Grünau was born in West Germany, the son of ? and ?. His father was ??; his mother was ??
von Grünau grew up in West Germany, but emigrated to Canada in about 1965 to study Physics at University of Toronto. He graduated in 1968, but then commenced a MA in Psychology, graduating in 1971, and a PhD, graduating in 1975. His PhD was supervised by Paul Kolers.
Around this time, he conducted research into the Color Phi phenomenon, investigating the influence of color on apparent movement from stationary images and also the fluttering heart phenomenon in which a red patch on a blue background appears to jump around as the observers moves his or her eyes.
In ??? von Grünau moved to the Department of Psychology at Queen's University at Kingston, where he founded a neurophysiology laboratory to study the visual system of cats. He continued his psychophysical studies of human visual perception. Key research he accomplished during this period included ????.
In ??? von Grünau moved to the Department of Psychology at Concordia University in Montreal. There he worked mainly in the psychophysics of human visual perception, on phenomena surrounding higher-order motion aftereffects, visual search and attention in the real world, visual flow fields, and eye movements
von Grünau died on 22 December 2011, from cancer.
In ???, he married Marinez De Andrade. They adopted a son, Fernando in 1999, from Brazil, and a daughter, Gabriela, in 2002, from China.