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<p>Dr. Joaquin M. Fuster (b.1930 Barcelona, Spain) studied medicine at the University of Barcelona (M.D. 1953). In 1957 he emigrated to the United States to initiate a career in neuroscience at the UCLA. During 1962-64, he worked as a visiting scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. After receiving his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Granada, Spain, Dr. Fuster has been Professor of Psychiatry and a member of the Brain Research Institute and the Semel Institute at the UCLA's School of Medicine.</p>
<p>Dr. Fuster's major recent honors and awards include: Member of Honor of the Spanish Royal Academy of Medicine; Signoret Prize (University Sorbonne, Paris); Fyssen International Science Prize; Doctor Honoris Causa, University Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain; Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience (NARSAD); and the George Miller Prize of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. His group has made significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience: </p>
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<li> Showed that brain-stem reticular activation facilitates visual (tachistoscopic) attention</li>
<li>Pioneered intracellular records from the brain, showing a psychophysical power-function between visual stimulus intensity and synaptic potential amplitude in visual system.</li>
<li> Showed reversible working-memory deficits by selective temporary cooling of cortical areas</li>
<li>With one of the earliest microelectrode drives developed by him for the behaving animal he discovered the first ?memory cells? in the prefrontal cortex of the monkey in working memory </li>
<li> Discovered the first memory cells in inferotemporal (IT) cortex </li>
<li>Showed functional interactions between IT and prefrontal cells in visual working memory </li>
<li> Found tactile memory cells in parietal cortex </li>
<li> By using working-memory tasks of different modalities, showed the distributed and associative nature of cortical networks in working memory. </li>
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<p>Fuster is the author of over one-hundred peer-reviewed articles and three books: The Prefrontal Cortex, Memory in the Cerebral Cortex, and Cortex and Mind. </p>
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Fuster, J.M. Prefrontal cortex and memory in primates..
Learning & Memory
2003; 2nd Edition:
535-538.
Fuster, J.M. Prefrontal Cortex in Temporal Organization of Action..
: The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Network
2002; Second Edition:
905-910.
Fuster, J.M. The Prefrontal Cortex..
1997;
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Fuster, J.M. Memory in the Cerebral Cortex..
1995;
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Fuster Joaquín, Guiou Michael, Ardestani Allen, Cannestra Andrew, Sheth Sameer, Zhou Yong-Di, Toga Arthur, Bodner Mark Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in cognitive neuroscience of the
primate brain..
NeuroImage.
2005; 26(1):
215-20.
Zhou Yong-Di, Fuster Joaquín M Somatosensory cell response to an auditory cue in a haptic memory
task..
Behavioural brain research.
2004; 153(2):
573-8.
DeFelipe Javier, Elston Guy N, Fujita Ichiro, Fuster Joaquín, Harrison Kimberly H, Hof Patrick R, Kawaguchi Yasuo, Martin Kevan A C, Rockland Kathleen S, Thomson Alex M, Wang Samuel S-H, White Edward L, Yuste Rafael Neocortical circuits: evolutionary aspects and specificity versus
non-specificity of synaptic connections. Remarks, main conclusions and
general comments and discussion..
Journal of neurocytology.
2004; 31(3-5):
387-416.
Fuster, JM The prefrontal cortex--an update: time is of the essence..
Neuron. .
2001; 30(2):
319-33.
Fuster, JM Bodner, M Kroger, JK Cross-modal and cross-temporal association in neurons of frontal cortex..
Nature. .
2000; 405(6784):
347-51.
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