Morris Moscovitch
Morris Moscovitch is Max and Gianna Glassman Chair in
Neuropsychology and
Aging and
Professor of
Psychology at the
University of Toronto. He is also a Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Moscovitch is a leading
neuropsychologist, with over 150 research articles focusing mainly on the neural substrates of high-level cognitive processes such as
memory,
attention, and recognition of
faces and
objects. According to
Google Scholar, he has an
h-index of 121 and over 52000 citations (2020). He has formulated a neuropsychological model of memory with three components: the posterior
neocortex, which mediates performance on tests of
memory without awareness; the
medial temporal lobes, which automatically store information that is consciously apprehended at encoding and obligatorily recovers information on tests of conscious recollection that are cue-driven; and the
frontal lobes, which work with memories delivered to and by the
medial temporal lobes and posteri or
neocortex, and recovered from them by supporting strategic processes that are needed at
encoding and
retrieval. Moscovitch received a
B.A. in
psychology from
McGill University in 1966, and an
M.A. and
Ph.D. in
psychology from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and 1972, respectively. He was born in
Bucharest,
Romania, where he lived for the first few years of his life before moving to
Israel at the age of 4 and subsequently moving to
Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the age of 7. Moscovitch became interested in memory research while attending McGill for his undergraduate degree, where
Brenda Milner's case study of
HM inspired him to seek a life in
neuropsychology. He also took a seminar taught by
Donald O. Hebb, then the leading biological psychology theorist. In December, 2020 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to clinical neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience, particularly his ground-breaking memory research..
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