Ed Connor

{{short description|Professor of neuroscience}}

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{{Infobox scientist

| name = Ed Connor

| birth_name = Charles Edward Connor Jr.

| image = Ed connor 2016.png

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|08|13}}

| birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland

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| citizenship = United States

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| thesis_title = The neural basis of tactual roughness perception

| thesis_year = 1990

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| fields = {{Plainlist|

• Neuroscience}}

| workplaces = {{Plainlist|

• Johns Hopkins University}}

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• Loyola University Maryland (BS)}}

| doctoral_advisor = Ken Johnson

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| spouse = Amy Bastian

| website = {{URL|http://krieger.jhu.edu/mbi/research/Connor/}}

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Charles Edward "Ed" Connor Jr. (born August 13, 1955) is an American neuroscientist who has made important contributions to the neuroscience of object synthesis in higher-level visual cortex.{{cite web|title=Ed Connor on PubMed|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=connor+ce}}

From 2009 he has been a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University.{{cite web|title=Ed Connor profile at Johns Hopkins|work=Johns Hopkins Medicine |url=http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/results/directory/profile/8719247/charles-connor/}} In 2007 Connor was appointed Director of the Zanvyl Krieger Mind Brain Institute at Johns Hopkins.{{cite web|title=Zanvyl Krieger Mind Brain Institute|url=http://krieger.jhu.edu/mbi/directory/}} Connor has interests in neuroaesthetics, the relation between neuroscience and beauty.{{cite web|title=The Science of Beauty|work=AIABaltimore |date=February 11, 2016 |url=http://www.aiabaltimore.org/events/2016-aiabaltimore-and-baf-spring-lecture-series-2/}}{{cite web|title=This is your brain on art|url=http://archive.magazine.jhu.edu/2010/03/this-is-your-brain-on-art/}}{{cite web|title=The Biology of Beauty|date=September 21, 2016 |url=https://medium.com/international-arts-mind-lab/the-biology-of-beauty-9dfc1c37bef5#.mny76bqw6}}