Mickey Goldberg

In the summer between high school and college he landed a job working in a lab for the Burroughs-Wellcome drug company.

[1] The lab was headed by George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion and focused its work on purine and pyrimidine antimetabolites.

Goldberg was a lab technician collecting data on a research project that eventually ending up producing the drugs azathioprine (Immuran) and azacytosine (AZT).

Because the mammalian eye is constantly in motion, the brain must create a mechanism for how to represent space in order to accurately perceive the outside world and enact voluntary movement.

This is called corollary discharge,[3] and it is one of the mechanisms in the cerebral cortex to account for spatially accurate vision.

[5] This top-down influence can specifically be seen in the high activity in the LIP when a distractor, a task-irrelevant stimulus, is introduced into the receptive field of a monkey, a common animal model in the study of complex brain processing.

The priority map[5] is interpreted by the oculomotor system to determine where the center of attention should be focused, as well as where the goal of the saccade is.

The LIP drives saccades, attention, and gathers evidence about the environment in order to properly discharge movement.

Some of these include: As well as taking part in many publications, Michael E. Goldberg has won multiple honors and awards for his research.