Richard B. Ivry is an American cognitive neuroscientist. He is a currently Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at the

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and a founding member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. Ivry previously served as chair of the university's Department of Psychology and director of its Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences. According to the Association for Psychological Science, Ivry's "seminal research program has transformed how we understand

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and action." Ivry received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from

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in 1981. He completed a Master of Science and Ph.D. in psychology at the

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in 1983 and 1986. In 1990, Ivry received a

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in neuroscience. In 1997, he received a Troland Research Award. In 2016, Ivry received the William James Fellow Award.

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