Michael Shadlen

{{short description|American neuroscientist and neurologist (born 1959)}}

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| name = Michael Shadlen

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| image = Michael Shadlen NIH (cropped).jpg

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|08|19}}

| birth_place = New York City

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| thesis_title = Neural Mechanisms of Stereoscopic Depth Perception

| thesis_year = 1985

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| workplaces = {{unbulleted list|Columbia University|HHMI}}

| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Brown University|UC Berkeley|Alpert Medical School}}

| doctoral_advisor = Ralph D Freeman

| academic_advisors = William Newsome

| awards = {{Plainlist|

• W. Alden Spencer Award (2009)
• Golden Brain Award (2012)}
• National Academy of Sciences (2023)}}

| website = {{URL|www.shadlenlab.columbia.edu}}

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Michael Neil Shadlen (born August 19, 1959) is an American neuroscientist and neurologist, whose research concerns the neural mechanisms of decision-making.{{GoogleScholar|Q0kenzsAAAAJ}} He has been Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University since 2012 and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator since 2000.{{cite web|title=HHMI investigator|url=http://www.hhmi.org/scientists/michael-n-shadlen|website=HHMI.org}}{{cite web|title=Shadlen Lab at Columbia University|url=https://www.shadlenlab.columbia.edu/|website=www.shadlenlab.columbia.edu}} He is a member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, a Principal Investigator at the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine{{Cite web |last=Shadlen |first=Michael |date=February 10, 2016 |title=Curriculum Vitae of Michael N Shadlen |url=https://shadlenlab.columbia.edu/people/mike/MShadlen_CV.pdf}} and National Academy of Sciences.

Shadlen is a jazz guitarist and interested in the relation between jazz and neuroscience.{{cite web|title=How Neurons Tell Time|url=https://soundcloud.com/carrytheoneradio/14-how-neurons-tell-time}}{{cite web|title=Columbia's Zuckerman Institute Presents Jazz in the Brain: A Dialogue of Sound and Science| website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpq7okDgbzs}}