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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - NAS Award in the Neurosciences, U.S. National Academy of Sciences For fundamental contributions to understanding the functional organization of the primate brain, including discovery of the visual functions of inferior temporal cortex, the role of the dorsal and ventral visual pathways in spatial and object processing, and anatomical descriptions of cognitive and non-cognitive memory systems.
  • 2012 - Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville
  • 2009 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his contributions to understanding the neural basis of perception and memory in primates, notably the delineation of sensory neocortical processing systems especially for vision, audition, and somatic sensation, and the organization of memory systems in the brain.", Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on November 17, 2010.
  • 2008 - Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
  • 1999 - Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease
  • 1996 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society For his pioneering analysis of the memory and the perceptual systems of the brain, and his seminal contributions to the understanding of the higher nervous system function
  • 1990 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1989 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1985 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1984 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1964 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1963 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Mortimer Mishkin was affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the field of Neuroscience, with a specific emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's research topics included:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception

Among the recent papers authored with collaborators, two notable publications appeared in 2020:

  • Correlates of Auditory Decision-Making in Prefrontal, Auditory, and Basal Lateral Amygdala Cortical Areas, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Correlates of auditory decision making in prefrontal, auditory, and basal lateral amygdala cortical areas, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors included:

  • Julia L. Napoli
  • Corrie R. Camalier
  • Jessica T. Jacobs
  • Bruno B. Averbeck
  • Anna-Leigh Brown

The scientist regularly published in these venues:

  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Over the course of their career, Mishkin received numerous awards recognizing their contributions to understanding brain function and memory systems:

  • NAS Award in the Neurosciences, U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2016) for fundamental contributions to understanding the functional organization of the primate brain, including the visual functions of inferior temporal cortex and anatomical descriptions of memory systems
  • Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville (2012)
  • US President's National Medal of Science (2009), presented by President Barack H. Obama for contributions to neural basis of perception and memory in primates
  • Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience (2008)
  • Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease (1999)
  • Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society (1996) for pioneering analysis of memory and perceptual systems
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (1990)
  • William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA) (1989)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1989)
  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association (1985)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1984)
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) (1964)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1963)

Best Publications

  • Object vision and spatial vision: two cortical pathways

    Mortimer Mishkin;Leslie G. Ungerleider;Kathleen A. Macko

  • Differential effects of early hippocampal pathology on episodic and semantic memory.

    F. Vargha-Khadem;D. G. Gadian;K. E. Watkins;A. Connelly

  • Memory in monkeys severely impaired by combined but not by separate removal of amygdala and hippocampus

    Mortimer Mishkin

  • A new neural framework for visuospatial processing

    Dwight Kravitz;Kadharbatcha Saleem;Chris Baker;Mortimer Mishkin

  • Dual streams of auditory afferents target multiple domains in the primate prefrontal cortex.

    L. M. Romanski;B. Tian;J. Fritz;M. Mishkin

  • Massive cortical reorganization after sensory deafferentation in adult macaques

    Tim P. Pons;Preston E. Garraghty;Alexander K. Ommaya;Jon H. Kaas

  • Dissociation of object and spatial visual processing pathways in human extrastriate cortex

    James V. Haxby;Cheryl L. Grady;Barry Horwitz;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  • The ventral visual pathway: an expanded neural framework for the processing of object quality

    Dwight J. Kravitz;Kadharbatcha S. Saleem;Chris I. Baker;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  • A memory system in the monkey.

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  • Perseverative interference in monkeys following selective lesions of the inferior prefrontal convexity.

    Susan D. Iversen;Mortimer Mishkin

  • Effects on visual recognition of combined and separate ablations of the entorhinal and perirhinal cortex in rhesus monkeys

    M Meunier;J Bachevalier;M Mishkin;EA Murray

  • Limbic lesions and the problem of stimulus--reinforcement associations.

    B. Jones;M. Mishkin

  • Contribution of striate inputs to the visuospatial functions of parieto-preoccipital cortex in monkeys.

    Mortimer Mishkin;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  • The anatomy of memory.

    Mortimer Mishkin;Tim Appenzeller

  • Organization of the amygdalopetal projections from modality-specific cortical association areas in the monkey

    Blair H. Turner;Mortimer Mishkin;Margaret Knapp

  • FOXP2 and the neuroanatomy of speech and language

    Faraneh Vargha-Khadem;David G. Gadian;Andrew Copp;Mortimer Mishkin

  • An Analysis of Short-Term Visual Memory in the Monkey.

    Mortimer Mishkin;Jean Delacour

  • Cortical connections of the somatosensory fields of the lateral sulcus of macaques: evidence for a corticolimbic pathway for touch.

    D P Friedman;E A Murray;J B O'Neill;M Mishkin

  • OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTICOCORTICAL CONNECTIONS IN THE RHESUS MONKEY.

    Kuypers Hg;Szwarcbart Mk;Mishkin M;Rosvold He

  • Neural basis of an inherited speech and language disorder

    F. Vargha-Khadem;K. E. Watkins;C. J. Price;J. Ashburner

  • Learning and memory

    Daniel L. Alkon;David G. Amaral;Mark F. Bear;Joel Black

Frequent Co-Authors

Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem University College London
Richard C. Saunders
Richard C. Saunders National Institutes of Health
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Leslie G. Ungerleider National Institutes of Health
Elisabeth A. Murray
Elisabeth A. Murray National Institutes of Health
John Patrick Aggleton
John Patrick Aggleton Cardiff University
Jocelyne Bachevalier
Jocelyne Bachevalier Emory University
Josef P. Rauschecker
Josef P. Rauschecker Georgetown University Medical Center
Barry Horwitz
Barry Horwitz National Institutes of Health
Michelle de Haan
Michelle de Haan University College London
David Friedman
David Friedman Columbia University

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