Margaret Livingstone
Margaret Livingstone | |
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| Born | April 3, 1950 |
| Alma mater | MIT Harvard University |
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| Thesis | Monoamines in the lobster: Biochemistry, anatomy, and possible functional role (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Kravitz |
| Doctoral students | Stephen Macknik Doris Tsao Bevil Conway |
Margaret Stratford Livingstone is the Takeda Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School in the field of visual perception.[1] Livingstone received her PhD from Harvard University in 1981 working with Edward Kravitz, after which she worked as a postdoctoral fellow under David H. Hubel at Harvard University.[2] She authored the book Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing.[3] She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 [4] and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.[5]
References
- ^ "Margaret Livingstone". Harvard Catalyst Profiles. Harvard Catalyst. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ "Margaret Livingstone | Department of Neurobiology". neuro.med.harvard.edu.
- ^ Bennett, Jeffrey L. "Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing". Journal of the American Medical Association. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
- ^ "New Members of the American Academy: Class of 2015". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ "National Academy of Sciences Elects New Members". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
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