Michael Shadlen

Michael Neil Shadlen (born August 19, 1959) is an American neuroscientist and neurologist, whose research concerns the neural mechanisms of decision-making. He has been Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University since 2012 and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator since 2000. He is a member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, a Principal Investigator at the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences.

Shadlen is a jazz guitarist and interested in the relation between jazz and neuroscience.

Education Shadlen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology at Brown University in 1981. He completed his Ph.D. in neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 under the direction of Ralph D. Freeman. Shadlen completed his M.D. at Brown University's Alpert Medical School in 1988.

Awards and honors Shadlen was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2014 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015.

Other awards include: 1995-1997 McKnight Scholar Award 2007 Swartz foundation Mind-Brain Lecture, Stony Brook University 2009 Alden Spencer Prize, Columbia University 2012 Golden Brain Award of the Minerva Foundation 2014 Fellow of Association for Psychological Science 2017 Karl Spencer Lashley Award, American Philosophical Society