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John M. Kennedy is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He describes his work as follows: “The key idea from which most of my research sprang was that lines can depict surface borders in vision and touch. Subsequent research on outline drawings confirmed the key idea. Therefore, development in the child and adult of the capacity to draw in outline, I hypothesized, should be the same in the blind and sighted, since surface borders are as relevant to touch as to vision.”

After earning a B.Sc. (1965) and M.Sc. (1966) from Queen's University (Belfast), Kennedy studied at Cornell University for his Ph.D. (1971). He was then hired as an associate professor at Harvard University (1970-1972). In 1972, Kennedy joined the Division of Life Sciences at the University of Toronto's Scarborough College. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2005, Kennedy rose to the rank of University Professor in 2009.

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Chiappe, Dan L., John M. Kennedy, and Penny Chiappe. "Aptness is more important than comprehensibility in preference for metaphors and similes." Poetics 31 (2003): 51–68.

Kennedy, John M., and Juan Bai. "Haptic pictures: fit judgments predict identification, recognition memory, and confidence." Perception 31.5 (2002): 1013 - 1026.

Kennedy, John M. Drawing and the blind. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1993.

Kennedy, John M. A psychology of picture perception. London: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1974.