Margaret Livingstone | |
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Born |
Danville, Virginia |
April 3, 1950
Residence | United States |
Alma mater |
MIT Harvard University |
Awards |
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Scientific career | |
Fields |
Neuroscience Visual perception |
Institutions |
Princeton University Harvard Medical School |
Thesis | Monoamines in the lobster: Biochemistry, anatomy, and possible functional role (1981) |
Doctoral advisor | Edward Kravitz |
Doctoral students |
Stephen Macknik Doris Tsao |
Margaret Stratford Livingstone is the Takeda Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School in the field of visual perception. Livingstone received her PhD from Harvard University in 1981 working with Edward Kravitz, after which she worked as a postdoctoral fellow under David H. Hubel at Harvard University. She authored the book Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing. She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.