Marcel Kinsbourne (3 November 1931 – 21 April 2024) was an Austrian-born pediatric neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist who was an early pioneer in the study of brain lateralization.
degree in 1963 at Oxford University, where he served on the Psychology Faculty from 1964,[5] before relocating to the United States in 1967.
Kinsbourne published over 400 articles, including: The Corpus Callosum as a Component of a Circuit for Selection, How the Senses Combine in the Brain, and Disorders of Mental Development.
[7] At the same time Kinsbourne wrote two articles which were published in 1993, one being Unity and Diversity in the Human Brain: Evidence from Injury [8] where he talks about cognitive neuropsychology, and the other article Awareness of Deficit After Brain Injury: Clinical and Theoretical Issues [9] where he talks about the systematic review he performs for certain types of disorders.
Kinsbourne has published around 400 articles in multiple areas of cognitive neuroscience, including brain-behavior relations, contralateral brain organization, consciousness, imitation, laterality among normal and abnormal populations, memory and amnestic disorders, unilateral neglect, attention and Attention Deficit Disorder, autism, learning disabilities, intellectual disability, and dyslexia.