Leslie G. Ungerleider

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Leslie G. Ungerleider

Leslie G. Ungerleider (* 1946 ) is an American experimental psychologist and neuroscientist . She is head of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institute of Mental Health . Ungerleider is particularly known for developing her concepts of visual perception , in which she differentiates between two different processing pathways in the visual cortex , the dorsal and ventral path.

Scientific career

Ungerleider studied psychology at Binghamton University in New York and received his PhD with a focus on experimental psychology from New York University . The doctorate from 1970 was entitled " Homosynaptic and heterosynaptic temporal summation behaviorally measured in the self-stimulation system of the rat" . During her postdoctoral training with Karl H. Pribram at Stanford University , she dealt with higher-level perceptual mechanisms in the cortex of primates. In 1975 she moved to the "National Institute of Mental Health", where she worked with Mortimer Mishkin in the neuropsychological laboratory. Her behavioral neurological studies inspired the theory of the "two cortical visual systems" . The dorsal path is responsible for object identification and visual memory, the ventral path for visual-spatial perception.

Since 1995 Ungerleider has headed the "Laboratory of Brain and Cognition" at the "National Institute of Mental Health".

Memberships in scientific associations

Ungerleider is a member of various scientific associations, including the " National Academy of Sciences " (since 2000), the " American Academy of Arts and Sciences " (since 2000) and the " Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences" (since 2001 ).

honors and awards

Ungerleider has received numerous awards for her research. These include the “Women in Neuroscience Lifetime Achievement Award” (2001), the “William James Fellow Award” from the “ Association for Psychological Science ” (2009), the Golden Brain Award (2011) and the “University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology ”, which she received in 2012 together with Mortimer Mishkin.

Publications

List of publications by Leslie G. Ungerleider on PubMed

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Principal Investigators, Leslie G. Ungerleider. National Institute of Mental Health, 2018, accessed July 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ One brain - two visual systems | The Psychologist. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ M. Mishkin, LG Ungerleider, KA Macko: Object vision and spatial vision: two cortical pathways. In: Trends in Neurosciences. 6 1983, pp. 414-417. doi: 10.1016 / 0166-2236 (83) 90190-X .
  4. ^ William James Fellow Award Recipient: Leslie G. Ungerleider. Association for Psychological Science, accessed July 16, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Scientists' idea helps explain 'what and where' people see. University of Louisville, accessed July 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ungerleider, Leslie G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American neuropsychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946