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Mortimer Mishkin
American neuropsychologist

Mortimer Mishkin

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American neuropsychologist
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Age
94 years
Education
Dartmouth College
Awards
Ariëns Kappers Medal
(1989)
National Medal of Science
(2009)
NAS Award in the Neurosciences
(2016)
Grawemeyer Award
(2012)
Karl Spencer Lashley Award
(1996)
Neuronal Plasticity Prize
(1995)
William James Fellow Award
(1989)
APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology
(1985)
Ralph W. Gerard Prize
(2008)
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Biography

Mortimer Mishkin (born December 13, 1926) is an American neuropsychologist, and winner of the 2009 National Medal of Science awarded in Behavior and Social Science.

Career

Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Mishkin graduated from Dartmouth College in 1946, and took a 1949 M.A. and 1951 Ph.D from McGill University under Donald O. Hebb.His Ph.D thesis was partly directed by surgeon and theorist Karl 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 is Chief of the Section on Cognitive Neuroscience, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, chartered to explore neurobiological mechanisms of perception and memory.

Awards

  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, 1985
  • William James Fellow Award, awarded by the Association 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
  • National Medal of Science, 2010
  • Grawemeyer Award given by the University of Louisville, 2012
  • NAS Award in the Neurosciences, 2016
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