Mortimer Mishkin (December 13, 1926 – October 2, 2021) was an American neuropsychologist, and winner of the 2009 National Medal of Science awarded in Behavior and Social Science.
[1] Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in December 1926,[2] Mishkin graduated from Dartmouth College in 1946, and took a 1949 M.A.
[3] His Ph.D. thesis was partly directed by surgeon and theorist Karl H. Pribram.
As of 2016 Mishkin was Chief of the Section on Cognitive Neuroscience, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, chartered to explore neurobiological mechanisms of perception and memory.
He is also recognised for his role in establishing the two streams hypothesis on the organisation of extrastriate visual cortex (with Leslie Ungerleider).