Leslie Ungerleider
Award Name : Golden Brain Award
Year of Award : 2011
Award for : Science and Engineering
Location : Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Leslie Ungerleider is an experimental psychologist and neuroscientist, currently Chief of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institute of Mental Health. Ungerleider is known for introducing the concepts of the dorsal (where) and ventral (what) streams, two pathways of information processing in the brain that specialize in visuospatial processing and object recognition, respectively.She received Golden Brain Award in 2011.