Committee Chair
Lynn Nadel, Chair of SPBAC
Lynn Nadel, Chair of SPBAC
Lynn Nadel, Regent's Professor of psychology and cognitive science, directs the cognition and neural systems program in The University of Arizona psychology department.
After earning his physiological psychology doctorate from McGill University, Nadel held National Institute of Mental Health fellowships at the Czechoslovak Academy of Science in Prague and at University College London.
A research associate at University College London in the 1970s, he later accepted posts at University of California's Irvine and San Diego campuses and Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. For 10 years, he co-directed the Complex Systems Summer School at Santa Fe Institute. He has been at the UA since 1985.
A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Psychological Society, he belongs to many national and international neuroscience associations and several editorial boards for scientific journals. He received the 2005 National Down Syndrome Society Award for Research and the Grawemeyer Prize in Psychology in 2006 for his work on the brain basis of cognitive maps.
Besides co-writing "The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map" with John O'Keefe, he has edited or co-authored books about Down syndrome, emotion, and language and space, and edited "The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science," published in 2003.