} 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

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since 2012 and a

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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

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and

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. 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 Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

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 university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

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, it ...

in 1988.

Career

Shadlen completed his residency at

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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

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

. Shadlen became a

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,

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*2009 Alden Spencer Prize,

*2012

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of the

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

References

External links

Neurotree
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shadlen, Michael 1959 births Living people American science teachers Columbia University faculty Columbia Medical School faculty Howard Hughes Medical Investigators Brown University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science Alpert Medical School alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine