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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Norman Myers was affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on neuroscience, with significant contributions also touching on cognitive neuroscience, gender studies, public health, environmental and occupational health, artificial intelligence, and health-related toxicology and mutagenesis.

Their work encompassed several main topics, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality

Their research output was published in various scientific venues, most frequently appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Neuron
  • Nature Human Behaviour

Norman Myers co-authored extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Mark G. Stokes
  • Paul S. Muhle-Karbe
  • Jasper E. Hajonides
  • Frida Printzlau
  • Sam Hall-McMaster

Some of the recent papers including Myers' contributions were:

  • "Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions," 2021, Neuron
  • "Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results," 2024, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Theoretical distinction between functional states in working memory and their corresponding neural states," 2020, Visual Cognition
  • "A Hierarchy of Functional States in Working Memory," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Multiple and Dissociable Effects of Sensory History on Working-Memory Performance," 2023, Journal of Neuroscience

Throughout their career, Myers received recognition by being elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1994 and named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

    Norman Myers;Russell A. Mittermeier;Cristina G. Mittermeier;Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca

  • Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature

    Andrew Balmford;Aaron Bruner;Philip Cooper;Robert Costanza

  • Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy

    Mathis Wackernagel;Niels B. Schulz;Diana Deumling;Alejandro Callejas Linares

  • Biodiversity Hotspots and Major Tropical Wilderness Areas: Approaches to Setting Conservation Priorities

    Russell A. Mittermeier;Norman Myers;Jorgen B. Thomsen;Gustavo A. B. Da Fonseca

  • Threatened biotas: "hot spots" in tropical forests.

    Norman Myers

  • The biodiversity challenge: expanded hot-spots analysis.

    Norman Myers

  • Environmental refugees: a growing phenomenon of the 21st century

    Norman Myers

  • Hotspots: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions

    R. A. Mittermeier;N. Myers;C. G. Mittermeier;P. Robles Gil

  • Overcoming systemic roadblocks to sustainability: The evolutionary redesign of worldviews, institutions, and technologies

    Rachael Beddoe;Robert Costanza;Joshua Farley;Eric Garza

  • The flux of carbon from terrestrial ecosystems to the atmosphere in 1980 due to changes in land use: geographic distribution of the global flux

    R. A. Houghton;R. D. Boone;J. R. Fruci;J. E. Hobbie

  • The primary source: Tropical forests and our future

    Norman Myers

  • Environmental refugees in a globally warmed world

    Norman Myers

  • Environmental Exodus: An Emergent Crisis in the Global Arena

    Jennifer Kent;Norman Myers

  • Can We Defy Nature's End?

    Stuart L. Pimm;Márcio Ayres;Andrew Balmford;George Branch

  • Conversion of tropical moist forests

    Norman Myers

  • The biotic crisis and the future of evolution

    Norman Myers;Andrew H. Knoll

  • Ultimate Security: The Environmental Basis of Political Stability

    Norman Myers

  • Long-term biological consequences of nuclear war

    Paul R. Ehrlich;John Harte;Mark A. Harwell;Peter H. Raven

  • How can a knowledge of the past help to conserve the future? Biodiversity conservation and the relevance of long-term ecological studies.

    Katherine J. Willis;Miguel B. Miguel B. Araújo;Keith Bennett;Blanca Blanca Figueroa-Rangel

  • The New Consumers: The Influence Of Affluence On The Environment

    Norman Myers;Jennifer Kent

  • Tropical rain forests in the far east: Timothy J. Whitmore. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984, 2nd, revised edn., £40.00, ISBN 0-19-854136-8

    Norman Myers

  • Ecological economics: The science and management of sustainability

    Norman Myers

  • Marine fisheries: two macro-constraints

    Norman Myers

Frequent Co-Authors

Cheryl A. Palm
Cheryl A. Palm University of Florida
Russell A. Mittermeier
Russell A. Mittermeier Conservation International
Lucas Joppa
Lucas Joppa Microsoft (United States)
Jerry M. Melillo
Jerry M. Melillo Marine Biological Laboratory
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza University College London
Keith D. Bennett
Keith D. Bennett University of St Andrews
Richard D. Boone
Richard D. Boone University of Alaska Fairbanks
Katherine J. Willis
Katherine J. Willis University of Oxford
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University

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