Margaret Livingstone

Margaret Livingstone
Born (1950-04-03)April 3, 1950
Danville, Virginia
Residence United States
Alma mater MIT
Harvard University
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Neuroscience
Visual perception
Institutions Princeton University
Harvard Medical School
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]

References

  1. ↑ "Margaret Livingstone". Harvard Catalyst Profiles. Harvard Catalyst. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Margaret Livingstone | Department of Neurobiology". neuro.med.harvard.edu.
  3. ↑ Bennett, Jeffrey L. "Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing". Journal of the American Medical Association. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  4. ↑ "New Members of the American Academy: Class of 2015". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 5 June 2017.


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