Michael Neil Shadlen (born August 19, 1959) is an American

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and

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, whose research concerns the neural mechanisms of

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. He has been Professor of Neuroscience at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

since 2012 and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator since 2000. 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 The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly called the Institute of Medicine (IoM) until 2015, is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Medicine is a part of the National Academies of Sciences, En ...

. Shadlen is a

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ist and interested in the relation between jazz and neuroscience.

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 The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1985 under the direction of Ralph D. Freeman. Shadlen completed his M.D. at Brown University's

Alpert Medical School The Warren Alpert Medical School (formerly known as Brown Medical School, previously known as Brown University School of Medicine) is the medical school of Brown University, located in Providence, Rhode Island. Originally established in 1811, i ...

in 1988.

Career

Shadlen completed his residency at

Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Francisco in 1858. This ...

where he was Chief Resident from 1991to 1992 and Clinical Instructor from 1993 94. He pursued neuroscience as a

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er at Stanford in the lab of

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before joining the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the

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. Shadlen became a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 2000. Shadlen joined Columbia University in 2012 as Professor of Neuroscience. Нe is a member of the editorial board for ''

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''.

Awards and honors

Shadlen was elected a Member of the

in 2014 and a Fellow of the

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in 2015. Other awards include: * 1995-1997 McKnight Scholar Award *2007 Swartz foundation Mind-Brain Lecture,

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York syste ...

*2009 Alden Spencer Prize,

*2012 Golden Brain Award of the

Minerva Foundation The Minerva Foundation is a US-based non-profit, scientific and charitable foundation. It is headquartered in Berkeley, California. It was established in 1983 by Helen and Elwin Marg. Other than the founders, directors include Richard M. Buxbaum ...

*2014 Fellow of Association for Psychological Science *2017 Karl Spencer Lashley Award, American Philosophical Society

References

External links

Neurotree
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