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Appendix H: Biographical Sketches
Appendix H: Biographical Sketches
Pages 251-258
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He is a member of numerous scholarly organizations, including Academia Europaea, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Gerontological Society of America, the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, and the Society for Research in Child Development. His numerous awards include the International Psychology Award of 251
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She has served on the National Science Foundation Graduate Panel on Psychology of the National Research Council and is currently on the Integrative, Functional, and Cognitive Neuroscience study section at the National Institutes of Health.
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She has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals and study sections at both the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association.
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He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993 and currently serves on the National Research Council's Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences. His honors include a distinguished scientific award from the American Psychological Association, the McGovern award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Lashley award from the American Philosophical Society.
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He has received numerous awards for his work, including the French Foundation fellowship award; the Pew scholar in biomedical sciences award; the Nathan Shock award; the Metropolitan Life Foundation award for medical research; the Potamkin prize for research in Pick's, Alzheimer's and related disorders; and the Alzheimer's Association T.L.L. Temple award.
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He is also adjunct professor of neurosciences and psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at the Salk Institute. His research is aimed at understanding the neuronal bases of visual perception and visually guided behavior in primates, using physiological, behavioral, and computational approaches.
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Johnson professor and vice chairman of geriatrics and adult development, and director of the Kastor Neurobiology of Aging Laboratories. His work incorporates very basic neurobiological research on neuronal specialization and the biochemical coding of brain circuits with the application of such principles to human neuropathology, in order to illuminate the cellular events that lead to dementia.
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258 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES methods of neuropsychology, behavioral medicine, and psychophysiology to the study of cardiovascular disease. In her work, she examines neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, biomedical, and psychological predictors of neurocognitive performance in older adults and conducts studies of individual differences in the magnitude and patterning of acute cardiovascular responses to psychological stressors.
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