Arthur Paul Shimamura (June 26, 1954 – October 6, 2020[1]) was a professor of psychology and faculty member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 2008, Shimamura received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship to explore links between art, mind, and brain.
Shimamura's research explored other psychological phenomenon, such as visual illusions (The Mystery Spot[4]), aging in UC Berkeley Professors,[5] and emotions in facial expressions.
Shimamura (2000)[8] defined encoding in terms of dynamic filtering theory, which describes the role of the prefrontal cortex in metacognitive or executive control processes.
Hierarchical relational binding theory explains both neuroimaging and behavior findings previously attributed to the distinction between recollection and familiarity.