Fred Attneave

Fred Attneave was born on March 25, 1919 in Greenwood, Mississippi. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1942 with a double major in Psychology and English. Attneave was drafted into the army and served as an officer in the Army Signal Corps for three years in the Pacific theatre working on radio and teletype installations. After the Army, he entered graduate school at Stanford University and received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1949. He returned to Mississippi and …