J. Anthony Movshon

J. Anthony Movshon
Born Joseph Anthony Movshon
December 10, 1950 (1950-12-10) (age 64)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Residence New York
Nationality American
Fields Neuroscience (Visual Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Systems Neuroscience)
Institutions New York University (professor)
Notable awards António Champalimaud Vision Award 2010, National Academy of Sciences 2008, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2009, Karl Spencer Lashley Award 2013

Joseph Anthony Movshon (born December 10, 1950 in New York City)[1] is an American neuroscientist. He has made contributions to our understanding of the brain mechanisms that represent the form[2][3] and motion[4] of objects, and the way that these mechanisms contribute to perceptual judgments[5] and visually guided movement.[6] He has also made advances in the study of visual cortical development,[7] its modification by visual experience,[8] and its relation to the development of visual behavior, including the clinical visual disorder of amblyopia.[9]

Movshon studied at Cambridge University, obtaining his B.A. in 1972, and his Ph.D. under the supervision of Colin Blakemore in 1975. Since 1975 he has been a faculty member at New York University, where he is University Professor and Silver Professor and Director of the University’s Center for Neural Science, which he founded in 1987.

Movshon received the António Champalimaud Vision Award in 2010. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

References

  1. ↑ "Joseph Anthony Movshon" (PDF). CV. NYU Center for Neural Science. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
  2. ↑ J. A. Movshon, I. D. Thompson and D. J. Tolhurst (1978). Receptive field organization of complex cells in the cat's striate cortex. Journal of Physiology 283, 79–99.
  3. ↑ J. Freeman, C. M. Ziemba, D. J. Heeger, E. P. Simoncelli and J. A. Movshon (2013). A functional and perceptual signature of the second visual area in primates. Nature Neuroscience 16, 974-981.
  4. ↑ J. A. Movshon, E. H. Adelson, M. S. Gizzi and W. T. Newsome (1985). The analysis of moving visual patterns. In Pattern Recognition Mechanisms, ed. C. Chagas, R. Gattass and C. Gross (Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia 54, 117–151). Rome: Vatican Press.
  5. ↑ W. T. Newsome, K. H. Britten and J. A. Movshon (1989). Neuronal correlates of a perceptual decision. Nature 341, 52–54.
  6. ↑ S. G. Lisberger and J. A. Movshon (1999). Visual motion analysis for pursuit eye movements in area MT of macaque monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience 19, 2224–2246.
  7. ↑ D. Y. Teller and J. A. Movshon (1986). Visual development. Vision Research (Silver Jubilee Issue) 26, 1483–1506.
  8. ↑ L. Kiorpes and J. A. Movshon (2004). Neural limitations on visual development in primates. In The Visual Neurosciences, ed. L. Chalupa and J. S. Werner, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  9. ↑ S. P. McKee, D. M. Levi and J. A. Movshon (2003). The pattern of visual deficits in amblyopia. Journal of Vision 3, 380–405 (http://www.journalofvision.org/3/5/5/).

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