Richard A. Andersen

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Richard A. Andersen is the James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology. He studies the neural mechanisms of sight, hearing, balance, touch and action, and the development of neural prosthetics. Andersen obtained a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Medical School. He was on the faculty of the Salk Institute and MIT before coming to Caltech. Andersen is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is recipient of a McKnight Foundation Scholars Award, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, Visiting Professor at the College de France, and the Spencer Award from Columbia University. He has served as the Director of the McDonnell/Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT and the Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at Caltech, as well as being a member or chair of various government advisory committees

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