Mortimer Mishkin

Mortimer Mishkin publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mortimer Mishkin sits on this spectrum.

Mortimer Mishkin D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mortimer Mishkin sits on this spectrum.

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

Best Publications

• Object vision and spatial vision: two cortical pathways

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

  3730
  Citations

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

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

  2412
  Citations

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

  Mortimer Mishkin

  1684
  Citations

• A new neural framework for visuospatial processing

  Dwight Kravitz;Kadharbatcha Saleem;Chris Baker;Mortimer Mishkin

  1508
  Citations

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

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

  1425
  Citations

• Massive cortical reorganization after sensory deafferentation in adult macaques

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

  1385
  Citations

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

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

  1361
  Citations

• 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

  1298
  Citations

• A memory system in the monkey.

  Unknown

  1139
  Citations

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

  Susan D. Iversen;Mortimer Mishkin

  1120
  Citations

• 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

  1118
  Citations

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

  B. Jones;M. Mishkin

  1106
  Citations

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

  Mortimer Mishkin;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  1009
  Citations

• The anatomy of memory.

  Mortimer Mishkin;Tim Appenzeller

  839
  Citations

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

  Blair H. Turner;Mortimer Mishkin;Margaret Knapp

  727
  Citations

• FOXP2 and the neuroanatomy of speech and language

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

  718
  Citations

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

  Mortimer Mishkin;Jean Delacour

  713
  Citations

• 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

  663
  Citations

• OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTICOCORTICAL CONNECTIONS IN THE RHESUS MONKEY.

  Kuypers Hg;Szwarcbart Mk;Mishkin M;Rosvold He

  610
  Citations

• Neural basis of an inherited speech and language disorder

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

  602
  Citations

• Learning and memory

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

  216
  Citations