Leon Glass (born 1943) is an American scientist who has studied various aspects of the application of mathematical and physical methods to biology, with special interest in vision, cardiac arrhythmia, and genetic networks.
[3] In 1975, Glass joined the department of physiology at McGill University, where he is professor emeritus[4] and the Isadore Rosenfeld chair in Cardiology.
[10] Glass' early work and eponymous patterns were fostered by mentor Christopher Longuet-Higgins, who guided him in the application of statistical methods to visual perception.
This discovery provided insight into mathematical nature of human perception by suggesting that the visual cortex is capable of computing a large number of autocorrelations in parallel.
[12] David Marr first coined the term "Glass patterns" in his 1982 work on visual perception,[13] resulting in an increased interest in the phenomenon.