Michael Shadlen
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Michael Neil Shadlen 19 August 1959 New York City, New York |
| Residence | New York City |
| Citizenship | United States |
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| Thesis | Neural Mechanisms of Stereoscopic Depth Perception (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ralph D Freeman |
| Other academic advisors | William T Newsome |
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| Spouse | Helen Brew |
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Michael Neil Shadlen (born 19 August 1959) is an American neuroscientist and neurologist, who has made important contributions in the neuroscience of decision making.[1] From 2000 he has been a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator and from 2012 Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University.[2][3][4] He is also a member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science and Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. Shadlen is an avid jazz guitarist and interested in the relation between jazz and neuroscience.[5][6]
Education
Shadlen completed his B.A at Brown University in 1981 and a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. He completed an MD at Brown University in 1988
Career
Shadlen did residency training at Stanford Medical School where he was Chief Resident 1991-1992 and Clinical Instructor 1993-94. He pursued neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher (1993–1995) at Stanford Medical School before joining the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington where he became a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 2000. He practised neurology as an Adjunct Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Neurology at University of Washington (1995-2012).
Awards and honours
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.[7][8]
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
References
- ↑ Michael Shadlen's publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ↑ "HHMI investigator". HHMI.org.
- ↑ "Shadlen Lab at Columbia University". www.shadlenlab.columbia.edu.
- ↑ "CV" (PDF).
- ↑ "How Neurons Tell Time".
- ↑ "Columbia's Zuckerman Institute Presents Jazz in the Brain: A Dialogue of Sound and Science".
- ↑ "The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine". www8.nationalacademies.org.
- ↑ "2015 AAAS Fellows Recognized for Contributions to Advancing Science". 16 November 2015.