Erin David Bigler (born July 9, 1949) is a retired American neuropsychologist and the Susa Young Gates Professor at

Brigham Young University Brigham Young University (BYU) is a Private education, private research university in Provo, Utah, United States. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is the flagship university of the Church Educational System sponsore ...

(BYU), where he was a professor of

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

and

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. He is known for his

neuroimaging Neuroimaging is the use of quantitative (computational) techniques to study the neuroanatomy, structure and function of the central nervous system, developed as an objective way of scientifically studying the healthy human brain in a non-invasive ...

research. He was president of the

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from 1989 to 1990 and of the

International Neuropsychological Society The International Neuropsychological Society is an international non-profit learned society dedicated to promoting research in neuropsychology. It was established in 1967 with only a few members, with its membership growing to about 5,000 by 2015. ...

from 2014 to 2015. He founded the Brain Imaging and Behavior Laboratory at BYU in 1990, and chaired the Psychology Department there from 1996 to 2002. He has been the first director of BYU's Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Facility since 2013. He retired in 2018 from teaching at

in Utah. He married Janet Beckstrom on June 22, 1971. Their children are Alicia Bigler Davis, born in 1976, and Erin Daniel Bigler, born in 1982.

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