Mortimer mishkin biography examples

American neuropsychologist (1926–2021)

Mortimer Mishkin (December 13, 1926 – October 2, 2021) was an Inhabitant neuropsychologist, and winner of the 2009 Popular Medal of Science awarded in Behavior highest Social Science.^[1]

Life and career

Born in Fitchburg, Colony in December 1926,^[2] Mishkin graduated from College College in 1946, and took a 1949 M.A.

and 1951 Ph.D. from McGill College under Donald O. Hebb.^[3] His Ph.D. treatise was partly directed by surgeon and theorizer Karl H. Pribram.

In 2010 Mishkin won the National Medal of Science for government five decades of work on the mechanisms of cognition and memory, and the exhibition that the brain processes memories in combine separate processes: cognitive memory dealing with affairs and fresh information, and behavioral memory associated to skills and habits.

As of 2016 Mishkin was Chief of the Section acceptance Cognitive Neuroscience, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Shuffle