Profile of David Heeger.
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“Interdisciplinary” has become a buzzword in science in recent years. According to David Heeger, a professor of psychology and neural science at New York University (NYU), “You don’t do interdisciplinary science by putting a physicist and a biologist in the same office. Nor do you make interdisciplinary science happen by taking a grant proposal and assigning it for review to people from a different field who know nothing about it. You have to be willing to learn the other field’s language. . .techniques. . .and literature.” Heeger, who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013, understands interdisciplinary science more than most. For decades, Heeger’s research has straddled the boundaries between psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, with lasting impacts on all three fields.
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5 6 Gijs Joost Brouwer 1 7 Vanessa Arnedo 2 8 Shani Offen 1 9 David J. Heeger 1 10 Arthur Grant 2 11 12 13 1 Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University 14 2 State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center 15 16 17 keywords: fMRI, somatosensory cortex, suppression, normalization, forward model 18 19 Supported by an NIH grant (RO1-EY022398) to DJH. 20 21 22...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
دوره 114 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017