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Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh (born 1947) is a Canadian vision scientist known for research on visual perception, attention, and motion, with professorships at Harvard, Dartmouth, and the Université de Montréal.
Paul Garrity
Paul A. Garrity is a biology professor at Brandeis University who studies the molecular sensors and neural circuits insects use to detect temperature, humidity, and chemicals.
Peter A. McNaughton
Peter A. McNaughton is a New Zealand-born sensory neuroscientist and Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London, known for identifying the ion channels behind warmth sensation and chronic pain.
Peter Dallos
Peter Dallos (Dallos Péter, born 1934) is a Hungarian-born American auditory physiologist, John Evans Professor of Neuroscience Emeritus at Northwestern, whose work identified prestin, the motor protein powering cochlear amplification.
Peter G. Gillespie
Peter G. Gillespie, who publishes as Peter G. Barr-Gillespie, is an American sensory neuroscientist at OHSU's Vollum Institute known for work on inner-ear hair-cell mechanotransduction.
Peter H. Schiller
Peter H. Schiller (1931–2023) was an American visual neuroscientist who spent his career at MIT, establishing the roles of the ON and OFF channels of vision.
Peter Mombaerts
Peter Mombaerts is a Belgian-born neuroscientist who uses mouse genetics to study olfactory wiring, and received the 1997 Presidential Early Career Award at Rockefeller University.
Peter Sterling (neuroscientist)
Peter Sterling (born 1940) is an American neuroscientist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who pioneered 3D electron-microscopic reconstruction of retinal circuits and developed allostasis.
Piali Sengupta
Piali Sengupta is an American neuroscientist and geneticist, Professor of Biology at Brandeis University, who studies how the roundworm C. elegans detects odors, temperature, and salt.
Pieter R. Roelfsema
Pieter R. Roelfsema is a Dutch neuroscientist who leads the Vision and Cognition group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam, studying visual perception.
Poppy Crum
Poppy Crum is a neuroscientist who served as Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories from 2010 to 2021 and is now an adjunct professor at Stanford University.
Preete Verghese
Preeti Verghese is an American vision scientist who is Chief Scientific Officer at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, known for a signal detection theory of visual search.
R. Clay Reid
R. Clay Reid is an American systems neuroscientist and Senior Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, leading functional connectomics research on the visual system.
Rachel I. Wilson
Rachel I. Wilson is a neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School who studies how fruit fly brains turn sensory information and internal goals into action, and an HHMI investigator.
Rafael Lorente de No
Rafael Lorente de Nó (1902–1990) was a Spanish neurophysiologist who established the CA1–CA4 hippocampal nomenclature and studied the vestibular system and nerve impulse, working in the United States from 1931.
Ragnar Granit
Ragnar Granit was a Finnish-born Swedish physiologist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about the eye's visual processes, especially retinal responses.
Rainer Friedrich
Rainer W. Friedrich is a Swiss-based systems neuroscientist, a Senior Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel since 2007 who studies olfactory memory in zebrafish.
Randall R. Reed
Randall R. Reed is a neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, an HHMI investigator known for work on odorant detection and olfactory receptor gene choice.
Randolph Blake
Randolph Blake is an American cognitive neuroscientist known for his work on binocular rivalry and visual perception, and Centennial Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Vanderbilt University.
Richard Axel
Richard Axel, born 1946 in New York, is an American molecular biologist and neuroscientist at Columbia University, best known for discovering the odorant receptor gene family.
Richard Benton
Richard Benton, born in 1977, is a British neuroscientist and professor at the University of Lausanne known for discovering ionotropic receptors, a family of insect smell receptors.
Richard H. Masland
Richard H. Masland (1942–2019) was an American retinal neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for counting retinal cell types and starburst amacrine cells.
Richard J. Krauzlis
Richard J. Krauzlis, also published as R. J. Krauzlis, is an American vision neuroscientist who leads the Visual Circuits Section at the National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.
Robert Desimone
Robert Desimone is a neuroscientist and director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, known for the biased-competition model of visual attention and work linking attention to gamma-band neural synchrony.
Robert Fettiplace
Robert Fettiplace, born in 1946, is a British-born sensory neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies inner-ear hair cells and shared the 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Robert Froemke
Robert C. Froemke is an American systems neuroscientist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose lab studies cortical plasticity, oxytocin, maternal behavior, and cochlear implants.
Robert Galambos
Robert Galambos was an American neuroscientist at UC San Diego known for proving bat echolocation in 1939, the 1961 glia-neural theory of brain function, and the auditory brainstem response test.
Robert H. Wurtz
Robert H. Wurtz (born 1936) is an American visual neuroscientist and NIH distinguished investigator emeritus, known for recording single neurons in awake, behaving monkeys and for discovering a corollary discharge circuit.
Robert Shapley
Robert M. Shapley is an American visual neurophysiologist at New York University known for work on retinal gain control and orientation tuning in visual cortex.
Robert W. Baloh
Robert W. Baloh, also published as R. W. Baloh, is an American neurologist and neuro-otologist at UCLA whose vestibular tests and textbooks became the field standard.