2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2010 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society In recognition of his pioneering studies of the primate visual system demonstrating the relation between perception and the activity of individual neurons
2002 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
2000 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1995 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1992 - Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation
1985 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
His primary areas of study are Neuroscience, Visual cortex, Electrophysiology, Visual perception and Psychophysics. His is involved in several facets of Neuroscience study, as is seen by his studies on Stimulus, Cerebral cortex, Perception, Sensory system and Eye movement. His Sensory system study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Motion perception and Cognitive neuroscience.
His research in Visual cortex intersects with topics in Contrast, Receptive field and Macaque. His Visual perception research includes elements of Extrastriate cortex and Posterior parietal cortex. In Psychophysics, William T. Newsome works on issues like Neuron, which are connected to Excitatory postsynaptic potential, Cortical column and Homogeneity.
William T. Newsome focuses on Neuroscience, Visual cortex, Stimulus, Macaque and Perception. His research in Electrophysiology, Psychophysics, Visual perception, Sensory system and Eye movement are components of Neuroscience. His study looks at the relationship between Visual cortex and fields such as Motion perception, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Cerebral cortex, Dorsum and Stimulation in addition to Stimulus. His studies in Macaque integrate themes in fields like Saccade, Visual field, Ibotenic acid and Anatomy. His Perception research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Motion, Cognitive psychology and Cognition.
William T. Newsome mainly investigates Neuroscience, Prefrontal cortex, Stimulus, Artificial intelligence and Cognition. Neuroscience is closely attributed to Ultrasound in his research. In his research on the topic of Prefrontal cortex, Eye movement, Sensory cue, Communication and Gaze is strongly related with Primate.
His study looks at the intersection of Stimulus and topics like Dorsum with Motor cortex, Visual perception and Laminar organization. His work deals with themes such as Ranking and Machine learning, which intersect with Artificial intelligence. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Perceptual decision and Sensory system.
William T. Newsome spends much of his time researching Neuroscience, Prefrontal cortex, Neurophysiology, Stimulus and Brain mapping. When carried out as part of a general Neuroscience research project, his work on Gyrus is frequently linked to work in Opinion piece, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of study. William T. Newsome interconnects Recurrent neural network, Nerve net, Cognitive neuroscience and Mechanism in the investigation of issues within Prefrontal cortex.
He has researched Neurophysiology in several fields, including Cognitive psychology, Social psychology, Perceptual decision and Macaque. The concepts of his Stimulus study are interwoven with issues in Electromyography and Stimulation, Neurostimulation. William T. Newsome combines subjects such as Neuroscience research, Neurotechnology and Brain research with his study of Brain mapping.
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The variable discharge of cortical neurons: implications for connectivity, computation, and information coding
Michael N. Shadlen;William T. Newsome.
The Journal of Neuroscience (1998)
The analysis of visual motion: a comparison of neuronal and psychophysical performance.
KH Britten;MN Shadlen;WT Newsome;JA Movshon.
The Journal of Neuroscience (1992)
Neural Basis of a Perceptual Decision in the Parietal Cortex (Area LIP) of the Rhesus Monkey
Michael N. Shadlen;William T. Newsome.
Journal of Neurophysiology (2001)
A selective impairment of motion perception following lesions of the middle temporal visual area (MT)
WT Newsome;EB Pare.
The Journal of Neuroscience (1988)
Noise, neural codes and cortical organization
Michael N. Shadlen;William T. Newsome.
Current Opinion in Neurobiology (1994)
Visual Processing in Monkey Extrastriate Cortex
John H. Maunsell;William T. Newsome.
Annual Review of Neuroscience (1987)
Correlated neuronal discharge rate and its implications for psychophysical performance
Ehud Zohary;Michael N. Shadlen;William T. Newsome.
Nature (1994)
Neuronal correlates of a perceptual decision.
William T. Newsome;William T. Newsome;Kenneth H. Britten;Kenneth H. Britten;J. Anthony Movshon.
Nature (1989)
Context-dependent computation by recurrent dynamics in prefrontal cortex
Valerio Mante;David Sussillo;Krishna V. Shenoy;William T. Newsome.
Nature (2013)
A relationship between behavioral choice and the visual responses of neurons in macaque MT
K. H. Britten;W. T. Newsome;M. N. Shadlen;S. Celebrini.
Visual Neuroscience (1996)
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