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Lynn Nadel (born November 12, 1942 ) is an American neuroscientist known for fundamental contributions to the role of the hippocampus in spatial orientation and memory . He is Regent's Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona .
Nadel received his bachelor's degree in biology in 1963 and his master's degree in psychology from McGill University in 1965 , where he received his doctorate in physiological psychology in 1967. His dissertation was entitled Behavioral Effects of Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampal Lesions in the Rat . It was there that he began working with John O'Keefe on the function of the hippocampus and its role in neural mapping and memory, which in 1978 led to the influential book The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map . In 1969/70 he was a post-doctoral student at the Institute of Physiology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and at University College London , where he was a researcher in the MRC Cerebral Functions Research Group until 1976. 1975/76 he was visiting professor at the University of Bergen , 1976/77 at the University of California, San Diego and 1977 to 1979 Associate Professor at Dalhousie University . 1980 to 1985 he conducted research at the University of California, Irvine (Associate Research Psychologist). He has been at the University of Arizona since 1985, where he directs the Cognition and Neuroscience program in the Department of Psychology.
According to Nadel, the hippocampus not only plays a key role in location information and location memory, but also generally in episodic memory. He also examines dysfunction of the hippocampus in Down syndrome , the effects of stress on the function of the hippocampus, and the role of sleep in learning.
In 2006 he received the Grawemeyer Prize in Psychology with John O'Keefe.
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- Editor of The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science , Macmillan 2003
- with John O'Keefe: The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map , Oxford University Press , 1978
- Editor-in-chief of the scientific journal , Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science
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| SURNAME | Nadel, Lynn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American neuroscientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1942 |