Mortimer Mishkin
Mortimer Mishkin(December 13, 1926 – October 2, 2021) was an American neuropsychologist, and winner of the 2009National Medal of Scienceawarded in Behavior and Social Science.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Born inFitchburg, Massachusettsin December 1926,[2]Mishkin graduated fromDartmouth Collegein 1946, and took a 1949 M.A. and 1951 Ph.D. fromMcGill UniversityunderDonald O. Hebb.[3]His Ph.D. thesis was partly directed by surgeon and theoristKarl H. Pribram.
In 2010 Mishkin won the National Medal of Science for his five decades of work on the mechanisms of cognition and memory, and the discovery that the brain processes memories in two separate processes: cognitive memory dealing with events and fresh information, and behavioral memory related to skills and habits.
As of 2016 Mishkin was Chief of the Section on Cognitive Neuroscience, Laboratory of Neuropsychology,National Institute of Mental Health,chartered to explore neurobiological mechanisms of perception and memory. He is also recognised for his role in establishing thetwo streams hypothesison the organisation of extrastriate visual cortex (withLeslie Ungerleider).
Mishkin died in October 2021, at the age of 94.[4]
Awards
[edit]- APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology,1985
- William James Fellow Award,awarded by theAssociation for Psychological Science,1989
- Ariëns Kappers Medal,1989
- Karl Spencer Lashley Award,for "pioneering analysis of the memory and the perceptual systems of the brain, and his seminal contributions to the understanding of the higher nervous system function", 1996
- Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease,1999[5]
- National Medal of Science,2010
- Grawemeyer Awardgiven by theUniversity of Louisville,2012
- NAS Award in the Neurosciences,2016[6]
References
[edit]- ^"Mortimer Mishkin Awarded the National Medal of Science".APS Observer.23(10). February 11, 2011.RetrievedJanuary 8,2020– via www.psychologicalscience.org.
- ^"Archived copy"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on January 26, 2017.RetrievedFebruary 10,2016.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^"NIMH » Principal Investigator: Mortimer Mishkin".Archived fromthe originalon February 17, 2016.RetrievedFebruary 10,2016.
- ^"Mortimer Mishkin Obituary - Washington, DC".Dignity Memorial.RetrievedOctober 3,2021.
- ^"MetLife Foundation Awards for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on October 13, 2018.
- ^"NAS Award in the Neurosciences".www.nasonline.org.RetrievedJanuary 8,2020.
External links
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- 1926 births
- 2021 deaths
- People from Fitchburg, Massachusetts
- American cognitive neuroscientists
- National Medal of Science laureates
- Scientists from Massachusetts
- Dartmouth College alumni
- McGill University alumni
- 20th-century American scientists
- 21st-century American scientists
- Members of the National Academy of Medicine
- Presidents of the Society for Neuroscience
- APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology recipients