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Foxe in 2016. John J. Foxe (born July 1967) is an English-born Irish neuroscientist, who is the Kilian J. and Caroline F. Schmitt Chair in Neuroscience at the University of Rochester in New York, where he is Professor and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience. [1]
In May 2015, he received one from The City College of New York, [27] and in June of the same year, he was awarded one from McGill University, both his alma maters. [28] In 2014 he received the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience "for the discovery of specialized brain networks for memory and cognition", together with Brenda Milner and Marcus Raichle.
The Dana Foundation (Charles A. Dana Foundation) is a private philanthropic organization based in New York dedicated to advancing neuroscience and society by supporting cross-disciplinary intersections such as neuroscience and ethics, law, policy, humanities, and arts. [1] [2]
Oliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. [2] Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career.
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is a professional society, headquartered in Washington, D.C., for basic scientists and physicians around the world whose research is focused on the study of the brain and nervous system. [2] It is especially well known for its annual meeting, consistently one of the largest scientific conferences in the world.
Michael Neil Shadlen (born August 19, 1959) is an American neuroscientist and neurologist, whose research concerns the neural mechanisms of decision-making. [1] He has been Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University since 2012 and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator since 2000.
Jerome Ysroael Lettvin (February 23, 1920 – April 23, 2011), often known as Jerry Lettvin, was an American cognitive scientist, and Professor of Electrical and Bioengineering and Communications Physiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
After graduation she worked as a research scientist at Dartmouth Medical School, the New School of Social Research and at New York University. Phelps joined the faculty at Harvard University in 2018. Previously she had worked at NYU obtaining the rank of Full Professor in 2004 and Yale University as an Assistant and associate professor of ...