Michael Neil Shadlen (born August 19, 1959) is an American

neuroscientist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, neural circuits, and glial ...

and

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, whose research concerns the neural mechanisms of decision-making. He has been Professor of Neuroscience at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

since 2012 and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator since 2000. He is a member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, a Principal Investigator at the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and an elected member of the

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. Shadlen is a jazz guitarist and interested in the relation between jazz and neuroscience.

Education

Shadlen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology at Brown University in 1981. He completed his Ph.D. in neurobiology at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1985 under the direction of Ralph D. Freeman. Shadlen completed his M.D. at Brown University's

Alpert Medical School The Warren Alpert Medical School (formerly known as Brown Medical School, previously known as Brown University School of Medicine) is the medical school of Brown University, located in Providence, Rhode Island. Originally established in 1811, ...

in 1988.

Career

Shadlen completed his residency at Stanford University School of Medicine where he was Chief Resident from 1991to 1992 and Clinical Instructor from 1993 94. He pursued neuroscience as a

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er at Stanford in the lab of William Newsome before joining the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the

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. Shadlen became a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 2000. Shadlen joined Columbia University in 2012 as Professor of Neuroscience. Нe is a member of the editorial board for ''

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''.

Awards and honors

Shadlen was elected a Member of the

in 2014 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015. Other awards include: * 1995-1997 McKnight Scholar Award *2007 Swartz foundation Mind-Brain Lecture, Stony Brook University *2009 Alden Spencer Prize,

*2012 Golden Brain Award of the

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*2014 Fellow of Association for Psychological Science *2017 Karl Spencer Lashley Award, American Philosophical Society

References

External links

Neurotree
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