Karl Spencer Lashley Award
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."
1996
Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic"For seminal contributions to the current understanding of prefrontal cortex and its role in working memory and for effectively applying insights from basic biological sciences to mental health."
Mortimer Mishkin
"For his pioneering analysis of the memory and the perceptual systems of the brain, and his seminal contributions to the understanding of the higher nervous system function."
1995
Larry R. Squire"For his seminal contribution to the delineation of implicit and explicit memory systems in the brain."
1994
Robert H. Wurtz"For brilliant technical innovations in recording the activity of single visual neurons of alert, behaviorally-trained monkeys that made possible salient scientific discoveries relating individual nerve cells to visual perception and to the generation of eye movement."
1993
Paul Greengard"For his pioneering work on the molecular basis of signal transduction and vesicle mobilization in nerve cells."
1992
Seymour Kety"For major contributions to understanding the genetics of schizophrenia and depression, and for developing reliable methods for studying cerebral blood flow which paved the way for PET imaging of brain activity."
1991
Sanford L. Palay"For pioneering the study of the nervous system on the ultrastructural level, for revolutionizing understanding, and especially for his seminal contribution - characterization of the chemical synapse in the central nervous system."
1990
Viktor Hamburger"For pioneering the study of neuroembryology, and especially the landmark contributions to understanding neural cell death, nerve growth factor, and the developmental program for motor behavior."
1989
Bela Julesz"For his illuminating discoveries concerning the human visual capacity, particularly for stereoscopic vision, depth perception, and pattern recognition."
Gian Franco Poggio
"For discoveries of visual cortical mechanisms in stereopsis and depth perception which have significantly influenced modern studies of the brain mechanisms in vision."
1988
Seymour Benzer"A pioneer in using genetic techniques to study the genetic code and the transfer of information from DNA to proteins. By a brilliant selection of suitable experimental systems, he has succeeded over the last twenty years in advancing these techniques and applying them to the analysis of development and behavior. These contributions have greatly expanded the power of the genetic approach in neurobiology and fostered a merger between molecular biology and neurobiology that is having profound consequences on every aspect of the field."
1987
Louis Sokoloff"For his elucidation of the physiological and biochemical processes involved in the metabolism of the brain and the application of these discoveries to the measurement of functional activity within that organ."
1986
Pasko Rakic"For his seminal contributions to the field of developmental neurobiology through research on the development of the central nervous system."
1985
David Bodian"In recognition of his fundamental neurobiological studies studies that laid the foundation for the successful development of a vaccine against polio myetitis. He has continued to make important discoveries in the development and structure of the nervous system."
1984
W. Maxwell Cowan"For his long record of important contributions to understanding the embryological development of the brain."
1983
Edward V. Evarts1982
Herbert H. Jasper1981
Eric R. Kandel1980
Curt P. Richter1979
Brenda Milner1978
Victor Percy Whittaker1977
Torsten Nils Wiesel and David Hunter Hubel1976
Roger Wolcott Sperry1975
Paul Weiss1974
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle1973
Janos Szentagothai1972
Paul D. MacLean1971
Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark1970
Horace Winchell Magoun1969
Elizabeth C. Crosby1968
Theodore H. Bullock1967
George H. Bishop1966
Hans-Lukas Teuber1965
Giuseppe Moruzzi1964
Walle H . J. Nauta1963
Alexander Forbes1962
Philip Bard1961
Edgar Douglas Adrian1960
Heinrich Kluver1959
Rafael Lorente De No