Eve Marder
"in recognition of her comprehensive work with a small nervous system, demonstrating general principles by which neuromodulatory substances reconfigure the operation of neuronal networks."
Karl Spencer Lashley Award
The Karl Spencer Lashley Award was established in 1957 by a gift from Dr. Lashley, a member of the Society and a distinguished neuroscientist and neuropsychologist. The award is to be made in recognition of work on the integrative neuroscience of behavior. At the time of his death, he was Emeritus Research Professor of Neuropsychology at Harvard University and Emeritus Director of the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology in Florida. Lashley's contemporaries considered his experimental work as daring and original. His entire scientific life was spent in the study of behavior and its neural basis, or as he phrased it: "the discovery of principles of nervous integration which are as yet completely unknown". His famous experiments on the brain mechanisms of learning, memory and intelligence helped inaugurate the modern era of integrative neuroscience.
Recipients
2012
2011
Joseph E. LeDoux
"in recognition of his seminal studies of the neural mechanisms of emotional learning, particularly fear learning and fear memory."
2010
William T. Newsome
"In recognition of his pioneering studies of the primate visual system demonstrating the relation between perception and the activity of individual neurons."
2009
James L. McGaugh
“In recognition of his comprehensive study of the biological processes that modulate the formation and consolidation of memory.”
2008
Eric Knudsen
"In recognition of his comprehensive study of visual and auditory perception in the owl and for his elucidation of how the auditory map is calibrated by the visual system during development."
2007
Richard F. Thompson
"In recognition of his distinguished contributions to understanding the brain substrates of learning and memory."
2006
Jon H. Kaas
"In recognition of his comprehensive analyses of the primate cerebral cortex, its evolution, functional organization, and plastic response to injury."
2005
Bruce McEwen
"In recognition of his extensive demonstrations of the role of circulating steroid hormones as regulators of neuroplasticity and behavioral adaption."
2004
Masakazu Konishi and Fernando Nottebohm
"In recognition of their fundamental contributions in identifying the organization and function of the avian brain systems for learning and executing birdsong."
2003
Horace B. Barlow
"In recognition of his fundamental contributions to understanding how the eye and brain accomplish vision."
2002
Jean-Pierre Changeux
"In recognition of his pioneering, comprehensive studies into the fundamental molecular mechanisms underlying interneuronal communication and their role in network formation, learning, and reward."
2001
Edward G. Jones
"In recognition of his comprehensive determination of the organization of the thalamus and the basis for the dynamic regulation of cortical excitability."
2000
Charles Stevens
"In recognition of his penetrating contributions to synaptic transmission and synaptic plasticity."
1999
Michael Merzenich
"In recognition of his original contributions to cortical plasticity."
1998
Michael I. Posner and Marcus E. Raichle
"Jointly, for their pioneering contributions to brain imaging."
