Joseph Anthony Movshon ForMemRS (born December 10, 1950, in New York City)[1] is an American neuroscientist.
Movshon and collaborators pioneered the application of detection theory to the output of neurons in Visual cortex, to obtain a Neurometric function.
[9] This work led to the suggestion that a visual percept could be due to the activity of a handful of neurons.
This suggestion found later support in studies where he collaborated with William Newsome to measure the neurometric function in the brain of the observer.
[18] Movshon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as a Foreign Member (ForMemRS) in May 2024.