Neil Burgess (neuroscientist)

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Neil Burgess

FRS FMedSci
Neil Burgess Royal Society.jpg
Neil Burgess at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017
Born1966 (age 54–55)[1]
Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Alma materUniversity College London (BSc)
University of Manchester (PhD)
Spouse(s)Cathy Mcdowell
ChildrenGeorge Burgess

Daniel Burgess

Hannah Burgess
AwardsRoyal Society University Research Fellowship[2]
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience[3]
InstitutionsUniversity College London
ThesisNeural networks, human memory and optimisation (1990)
Doctoral advisorMichael A. Moore[4]
InfluencesChris Frith[5]
Graham Hitch[6]
John O'Keefe[7]
Eleanor Maguire[5]
Websitewww.ucl.ac.uk/icn/neilburgess

Neil Burgess (born 1966)[1] FRS FMedSci[2][8] is a Professor of Cognitive neuroscience at University College London[9] and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow.[3][10][11][12] He has made important contributions to understanding memory and spatial cognition by developing computational models relating behaviour to activity in biological neural networks.[2]

Education[]

Burgess was educated at University College London (UCL), where he was an undergraduate student of Mathematics and Physics.[2] He completed his postgraduate study in theoretical physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester supervised by Michael A. Moore,[4][13] where he began working on models of memory with Graham Hitch[2] and was awarded a PhD in 1990.[4]

Research and career[]

Burgess research in neuroscience[3] has developed models to explain how networks of neurons allow us to represent, remember and imagine our location within the surrounding environment.[2] These models provide a quantitative understanding of how spatial memory,[14] episodic memory and autobiographical memory[15] function (and dysfunction) depend on human brain activity. With Tom Hartley at the University of York and Colin Lever at Durham University he both predicted and discovered neurons representing environmental boundaries.[2][16]

Awards and honours[]

Burgess was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2009[2] having previously held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.[when?]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Anon (2017). "Burgess, Prof. Neil". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.289276. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Anon (2017). "Professor Neil Burgess FMedSci FRS". London: royalsociety.org. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Neil Burgess publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Burgess, Neil (1990). Neural networks, human memory and optimisation. manchester.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. Copac 36585289.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Maguire, Eleanor A.; Burgess, Neil; Donnett, James G.; Frackowiak, Richard S. J.; Frith, Christopher D.; O'Keefe, John (1998). "Knowing Where and Getting There: A Human Navigation Network". Science. 280 (5365): 921–924. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.23.4963. doi:10.1126/science.280.5365.921. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 9572740. closed access
  6. ^ Burgess, Neil; Hitch, Graham J. (1999). "Memory for serial order: A network model of the phonological loop and its timing". Psychological Review. 106 (3): 551–581. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.106.3.551. ISSN 0033-295X. closed access
  7. ^ O'Keefe, John; Burgess, Neil (1996). "Geometric determinants of the place fields of hippocampal neurons". Nature. 381 (6581): 425–428. doi:10.1038/381425a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 8632799. S2CID 4345249. closed access
  8. ^ Anon (2009). "Neil Burgess FMedSci". acmedsci.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  9. ^ Anon (2017). "Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Director: Professor Neil Burgess FMedSci FRS". University College London. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  10. ^ Anon (2017). "Professor Neil Burgess". University College London. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013.
  11. ^ 57216060199 Neil Burgess publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  12. ^ Neil Burgess publications from Europe PubMed Central
  13. ^ Burgess, Neil; Shapiro, Jonathan L.; Moore, Michael A. (1991). "Neural network models of list learning". Network: Computation in Neural Systems. 2 (4): 399–422. doi:10.1088/0954-898X_2_4_005. ISSN 0954-898X. closed access
  14. ^ Burgess, Neil; Maguire, Eleanor A; O'Keefe, John (2002). "The Human Hippocampus and Spatial and Episodic Memory". Neuron. 35 (4): 625–641. doi:10.1016/s0896-6273(02)00830-9. PMID 12194864. S2CID 11989085.
  15. ^ Lin, Wen-Jing; Horner, Aidan J.; Burgess, Neil (2016). "Ventromedial prefrontal cortex, adding value to autobiographical memories". Scientific Reports. 6 (1): 28630. doi:10.1038/srep28630. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4919650. PMID 27338616. open access
  16. ^ Hartley, Tom; Lever, Colin; Burgess, Neil; O'Keefe, John (2013). "Space in the brain: how the hippocampal formation supports spatial cognition". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 369 (1635): 20120510. doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0510. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 3866435. PMID 24366125. open access


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