Professor Michael Posner FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2014
- Subjects
- Psychology
- Sections
- Psychology
Summary
For more than fifty years Michael Posner has studied how mental operations, particularly those related to attention, are carried out by neural networks. He has used cognitive, imaging and genetic methods. He continues these studies as Prof. Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon and Adjunct Prof. at Weill Medical College. His current work examine the mechanisms of changes in white matter resulting from various forms of training. A mouse model together with optogenetic methods is used to examine the general changes with learning and the reason for individual differences in changed connectivity. We are currently testing if individual differences in methylation efficiency can account for the differences in the degree of change in white matter that occur with learning and development.
Current post
Professor of Psychology Emeritus, University of Oregon; Adjunct Professor, Weill Medical College, New York
Publications
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The typical & atypical development of social & cognitive skills in children over the early years, particularly with respect to structural & functional brain development.
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Parenting and child development in new family forms including same-sex parent families, single mothers by choice, and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF, gamete donation and surrogacy
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The cognitive and social foundations of rationality & language; general principles of cognition; philosophical, economic & policy implications of cognitive science.
