Neil Burgess (neuroscientist)
Neil Burgess | |
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Burgess in 2017 | |
| Born | 13 July 1966 Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England |
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| Spouse |
Cathryn McDowell (m. 1997) |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Royal Society University Research Fellowship |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Thesis | Neural networks, human memory and optimisation (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Moore |
| Website | www |
Neil Burgess (born 13 July 1966) is a British neuroscientist. He has been a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London since 2004 and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow since 2011. He has made important contributions to understanding memory and spatial cognition by developing computational models relating behaviour to activity in biological neural networks.