The Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences
2026
Dr. Tim Behrens, Oxford University
Tim Behrens is Professor of Computational Neuroscience at Oxford University and University College London, and a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow. He studies how our brains learn and represent knowledge about the world in service of flexible behaviour. His work aims to explain complex human behaviour but is grounded in comparisons with animal models and formal mathematical theory. It has therefore made impact across scales from cells to brain regions and across mammalian species. He has also developed widely used approaches for measuring brain connections non-invasively.
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Dr. Amy Bastian, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Amy Bastian is a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a neuroscientist and physical therapist who studies the neural control of human movement. She has a special interest in stroke, cerebellar motor disorders and childhood motor development.
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Richard Ivry, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley
Talk Title:听Probing the Role of the Cerebellum in Sensorimotor Learning and Cognition
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Tirin Moore, Ph.D., Ben Barres Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford University. Member of Bio-X; Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI); Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute.
Talk Title:听Large-scale, High-Density Recordings in the Primate Brain
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Marisa Carrasco, Ph.D., Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science and Collegiate Professor at New York University
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Sheena Josselyn, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Program in Neuroscience & Mental Health. The Hospital for Sick Children, Research Institute, University of Toronto
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Marina R. Picciotto, Ph.D., Charles BG Murphy Professor in Psychiatry and Deputy Chair for Basic Science, Professor of Neuroscience, of Pharmacology, and in the Child Study Center
Talk Title: Acetylcholine as a neuromodulator: ACh signaling in the basolateral amygdala at baseline and in reward learning.
Eve Marder, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience, Brandeis University
Talk Title: Differential Resilience to Perturbation of Circuits with Similar Performance
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Krishna V. Shenoy, Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor of Engineering, Stanford University
Talk Title: Brain-machine Interfaces: From Basic Science and Engineering to Clinical Trials
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Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health (NIH)听
Talk Title: Molecular Imaging of Addictive Disorders
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Alexandre Pouget, Full Professor, Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva
Talk Title: The Probabilistic Brain
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Ed Boyden, Associate Professor of Biological Engineering & Brain and Cognitive Science at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT McGovern Institute
Talk Title: Tools for Understanding and Fixing the Brain
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Ricardo Dolmetsch, Global Head of Neuroscience at the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research听
Talk Title: Insights Into the Brain of a Child With Autism
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Leslie G. Ungerleider (1946鈥�2020), Chief of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Talk Title: The Functional Architecture of Face Processing in the Primate Brain
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Established by the as part of its centennial celebration, the Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences recognizes trailblazers in the brain and behavioral sciences whose research has helped advance the field and its applications. Each year, the winner is invited to 蘑菇Av's campus to deliver a scientific talk and they are presented with an original piece of artwork commissioned from artist . The prize also awards a one-year graduate fellowship to a CMU student, who will typically have the opportunity to visit the recipient's lab.听