William Thomas Newsome (born June 5, 1952) is a
neuroscientist at
Stanford University
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who works to "understand the neuronal processes that mediate visual perception and visually guided behavior."
[Newsome Lab Research Interests]
/ref> He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences
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According to an article in PNAS, "What sets Newsome's research apart from many other studies in this area is that the techniques he uses—primarily, stimulation of brain areas of primates with microelectrodes—have helped demonstrate cause and effect rather than merely show a correlation between behavior and activity of the brain."[Biography of William T. Newsome]
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Personal life
Newsome is a Christian.
Awards
* Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Investigator (1997– Present)[HHMI Profile]
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* Member National Academy of Sciences
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(2000)[
* Member, Society for Neuroscience
* Member, ]American Philosophical Society
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* António Champalimaud Vision Award, (2010)
* Karl Spencer Lashley Award The Karl Spencer Lashley Award is awarded by The American Philosophical Society as a recognition of research on the integrative neuroscience of behavior. The award was established in 1957 by a gift from Dr. Karl Spencer Lashley.
Recipients
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, American Philosophical Society
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(2010)
* Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, American Psychological Association
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* Dan David Prize, Tel Aviv University
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(2004)
* W. Alden Spencer Award
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, Columbia University
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(1994)
* Rank Prize in Opto-electronics, Rank Prize Funds, London
* Pepose Award in Vision Science (2015)
Publications
His publications include:
* "A selective impairment of motion perception following lesions of the middle temporal visual area" ''The Journal of Neuroscience'' (1988)
* "Neuronal correlates of a perceptual decision" ''Nature'' (1989)
* "Correlated neuronal discharge rate and its implications for psychophysical performance" ''Nature'' (1994)
* "Noise, neural codes and cortical organization" ''Current Opinion in Biology'' (1994)
* "The variable discharge of cortical neurons: implications for connectivity, computation, and information coding" ''The Journal of Neuroscience'' (1998)"The variable discharge of cortical neurons: implications for connectivity, computation, and information coding" ''The Journal of Neuroscience'' (1998)
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See also
* Two-alternative forced choice Two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) is a method for measuring the sensitivity of a person, child or infant, or animal to some particular sensory input, stimulus, through that observer's pattern of choices and response times to two versions of the s ...
Notes and references
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1952 births
Living people
People from Florida
American neuroscientists
Howard Hughes Medical Investigators
Stanford University School of Medicine faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences