J. Anthony Movshon

J. Anthony Movshon
Born
Joseph Anthony Movshon

December 10, 1950 (1950-12-10) (age 74)
AwardsAntónio Champalimaud Vision Award 2010, National Academy of Sciences 2008, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2009, Karl Spencer Lashley Award 2013
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience (Visual Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Systems Neuroscience)
InstitutionsNew York University (professor)

Joseph Anthony Movshon ForMemRS (born December 10, 1950, in New York City) is an American neuroscientist. He has made contributions to the understanding of the brain mechanisms that represent the form and motion of objects, and the way these mechanisms contribute to perceptual judgments and visually guided movement. He is a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Vision Science.