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Dale PurvesPlace of work: United States of America University: Duke UniversityLaboratory: Center for Cognitive Neuroscience |
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Dale Purves, MD, is a George
Barth Geller Professor of Research in Neurobiology, director of the Center
for Cognitive Neuroscience, and a professor in the Department of Psychology and
Neuroscience at Duke University. Prior
to 2003, he was chair of the Department of Neurobiology for 13 years. A member of the National Academy of Sciences
since 1989, Dr. Purves, along with his colleagues, continues to study visual
perception and its neurobiological underpinnings. Ongoing investigations are aimed at understanding
the perception of brightness, color, orientation, motion, and depth in a
statistical framework. More recently, he
has studied the neurobiological basis of musical tone perception. Dr. Purves graduated summa cum laude from
Yale University and from Harvard Medical School in 1964. Upon completion of an internship and
assistant residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, he went on to serve as a
post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical
School and at University College, London. He became a faculty member at Washington University in 1973 and came to
Duke in 1990 as the founding chair of the Department of Neurobiology. |
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Musical Tones Discovered in Speech4 Jun, 2007 12:25 pm A striking feature of music is the use of 12 specific tone intervals in musical composition and performance across many human cultures. This phenomenon... | ||
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