Michael Shadlen | |
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| Born | August 19, 1959 |
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| Thesis | Neural Mechanisms of Stereoscopic Depth Perception (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ralph D Freeman |
| Other academic advisors | William Newsome |
| Website | www |
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.[2][3] He is a member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, a Principal Investigator at the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine[4] and National Academy of Sciences.
Shadlen is a jazz guitarist and interested in the relation between jazz and neuroscience.[5][6]
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Education
Shadlen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology at Brown University in 1981. He completed his Ph.D. in neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 under the direction of Ralph D. Freeman. Shadlen completed his M.D. at Brown University's Alpert Medical School in 1988.[4]
Career
Shadlen completed his residency at Stanford University School of Medicine where he was Chief Resident from 1991to 1992 and Clinical Instructor from 1993 94. He pursued neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford in the lab of William Newsome before joining the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington. Shadlen became a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 2000.[4]
Shadlen joined Columbia University in 2012 as Professor of Neuroscience.[4] Нe is a member of the editorial board for Current Biology.[7]
Awards and honors
Shadlen was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2014 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015.[8][9]
Other awards include:
- 1995-1997 McKnight Scholar Award
- 2007 Swartz foundation Mind-Brain Lecture, Stony Brook University
- 2009 Alden Spencer Prize, Columbia University
- 2012 Golden Brain Award of the Minerva Foundation
- 2014 Fellow of Association for Psychological Science
- 2017 Karl Spencer Lashley Award, American Philosophical Society
References
- ^ Michael Shadlen publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ "HHMI investigator". HHMI.org.
- ^ "Shadlen Lab at Columbia University". www.shadlenlab.columbia.edu.
- ^ a b c d Shadlen, Michael (10 February 2016). "Curriculum Vitae of Michael N Shadlen" (PDF).
- ^ "How Neurons Tell Time".
- ^ "Columbia's Zuckerman Institute Presents Jazz in the Brain: A Dialogue of Sound and Science". YouTube.
- ^ "Editorial Board: Current Biology". www.cell.com.
- ^ "The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine". www8.nationalacademies.org.
- ^ "2015 AAAS Fellows Recognized for Contributions to Advancing Science". 16 November 2015.
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