Ian Porteus Howard, BSc, PhD was a Canadian psychologist and researcher in visual perception at York University in Toronto.
Howard was born in Lancashire, England, close to the Yorkshire border. He studied for a BSc at Manchester University, graduating in 1952. Howard held academic positions in Departments of Psychology at Durham University , at New York University , and at York University in Toronto . At York University, he contributed to the development of the Department of Psychology and, in 1992 founded the Centre for Vision Research .
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