Eugene Sokolov

{{Short description|Soviet psychologist (1920–2008)}}

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| name = Eugene Nikolayevich Sokolov

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|09|23}}

| birth_place = Nizhny Novgorod, USSR

| death_date = {{Death date|2008|05|14}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russia

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| occupation = Neuroscientist

| alma_mater = Moscow State University (1984)

| awards = Pavlov Gold Medal Award (1984)
SPR Award (1988)
Lomonosov Award (1992)

| organization = Moscow State University
National Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Soviet Academy of Pedagogical Sciences
Russian Academy of Education

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| notable_works = Perception and the Conditioned Reflex (1958), Mechanisms of Memory (1969), Artificial Sense Organs (1979), Neuronal Mechanisms of Memory and Learning (1981), Color Vision (1984), Neurophysiology of Memory and Learning (1987), Psychophysiology of Color Vision (1989)

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Eugene Nikolayevich Sokolov (September 23, 1920 in Nizhny Novgorod{{cite web|url=http://www.psy.msu.ru/people/sokolov.html|title=Sokolov Evgeny Nikolaevich|publisher=MSU Faculty of Psychology|work=psy.msu.ru|language=Russian}} – May 14, 2008 in Moscow), also known as Evgeny Nikolaevich Sokolow, Evgeny Nikolaevich Sokolov, Evgeni Sokolov, Ye. N. Sokolov, Evgeniĭ Sokolov, Yevgeny Nikolaevich Sokolov, and Yevgeniy Nikolaevich Sokolov, was a Russian researcher specialized in the field of neuroscience who worked at Moscow State University and founded the Soviet psychophysiology research. He is best known for his work on the orienting reflex and habituation. He authored Orienting Response Information on this subject.

He served as a lecturer at Cambridge and Oxford in 1969, was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1974, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975 as a foreign associate in the discipline of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences,{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/45908.html|title=Eugene Sokolov|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|work=nasonline.org}}{{cite journal|title=Evgeny Nikolaevich Sokolov (1920-2008)|first1=John A.|last1=Spinks|first2=Risto|last2=Näätänen|first3=Heikki|last3=Lyytinen|date=1 November 2008|journal=Psychophysiology|volume=45|issue=6|pages=883–885|doi=10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00747.x|pmid = 18992074|doi-access=}} and became an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976. In 1984, he was elected to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and received the Pavlov Gold Medal Award from the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1988, the Society for Psychophysiological Research awarded Sokolov a special diploma "for outstanding contributions to psychophysiology". In 1998 he was recognized by the International Organization of Psychophysiology as one of five most acclaimed neuroscientists of the twentieth century.{{cite book|last=Sokolov|first=Eugene|editor=Douglas Bowden |editor2=Kirill Chernorizov |editor3=Alexander Chernorizov|title=Psychophysiology of Consciousness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dIQ1n-4ghqcC|year=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-993435-5}}