work_institution birth_place nationality name field birth_date residence prizes article_title birth_name
new york university -lrb- professor -rrb- new york city , new york , u.s. american j. anthony movshon neuroscience neuroscience -rrb- -lrb- visual neuroscience , computational neuroscience , systems december 10 , 1950 new york antónio sciences 2008 , american academy of arts and sciences 2009 champalimaud , karl spencer lashley award 2013 vision award 2010 , national academy of j. anthony movshon
 joseph anthony movshon
j. anthony movshon

joseph anthony movshon -lrb- born december 10 , 1950 in new york city -rrb- is an american neuroscientist .
he has made contributions to our understanding of the brain mechanisms that represent the form and motion of objects , and the way that these mechanisms contribute to perceptual judgments and visually guided movement .
he has also made advances in the study of visual cortical development , its modification by visual experience , and its relation to the development of visual behavior , including the clinical visual disorder of amblyopia .
movshon studied at cambridge university , obtaining his b.a. in 1972 , and his ph.d. under the supervision of colin blakemore in 1975 .
since 1975 he has been a faculty member at new york university , where he is university professor and silver professor and director of the university 's center for neural science , which he founded in 1987 .
movshon received the antónio champalimaud vision award in 2010 .
he was elected to the national academy of sciences in 2008 , and to the american academy of arts and sciences in 2009 .
