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Born | Charles Edward Connor Jr. 13 August 1955 |
Citizenship | United States |
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Spouse | Amy Bastian |
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Thesis | The neural basis of tactual roughness perception (1990) |
Doctoral advisor | Ken Johnson |
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Website | krieger |
Charles Edward "Ed" Connor Jr. (born 13 August 1955) is an American neuroscientist, who has made important contributions to the neuroscience of object synthesis in higher-level visual cortex.[1] From 2009 he has been a Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University.[2] In 2007 Connor was appointed Director of the Zanvyl Krieger Mind Brain Institute at Johns Hopkins University.[3] Connor has interests in neuroaesthetics, the relation between neuroscience and beauty.[4] [5] [6]
Education
editConnor completed a B.S. in Biology at Loyola University Maryland in 1978, an M.S. at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1982 and a PhD[7] at Johns Hopkins University in 1990 under Dr Ken Johnson.
Career
editConnor pursued neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher with Gian Poggio and Mike Steinmetz at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1990–1992), with David van Essen at California Institute of Technology and Washington University School of Medicine (1992-1996) before joining the faculty of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1996.
Personal life
editSince 2002, Connor has been married to Amy Bastian who is a Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and they have one son.
References
editExternal links
edit- Neurotree
- Neural changes underlying visual shape learning video
- Hopkins study finds brain cells that orient us in relation to gravity
Category:1955 births Category:Living people Category:American neuroscientists Category:Washington University in St. Louis alumni Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty