Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

Lynn Nadel received his Ph.D. in Psychology from McGill University in 1967. After a sojourn as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Physiology in Prague (1967-70) he was a researcher in the Cerebral Functions Group, Department of Anatomy, at University College London from 1970-76. He then spent a year in the Dept. of Psychiatry at UC San Diego, 2 years in Psychology at Dalhousie University, and 5 years in the Cognitive Sciences Program at UC Irvine. For the past 15 years he has been in the Psychology Department and Cognitive Sciences Program at the University of Arizona. From 1990-2000 he was co-Director of the Complex Systems Summer School in Santa Fe, and is an External Faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. His research has focused on the functions of the hippocampus in spatial cognition and memory, and has included work on development, clinical syndromes such as panic, phoblas and PTSD, disorders such as amnesia and Down syndrome, and the impact of stress on memory. He is co-author (with John O'Keefe) of The hippocampus as a cognitive map, and of over 130 articles and books.