Dr. Dr Ian Q Whishaw

Ian Whishaw, Department of Psychology, The University of Lethbridge, has made many outstanding contributions to the relatively new discipline of behavioural neuroscience which investigates the connections between brain systems and behaviour. Much of his research, as exemplified by the finding that differentiated digit use is present in rats as well as primates, has refined our understanding of neural control systems for motor activity. This, in turn, has facilitated the study of selective brain damage and its effect on motor behaviour as well as therapeutic strategies to heal the injured brain. Publications describing this impressive body of work are of the highest quality and have appeared in the most prestigious scientific journals.