Robert H. Wurtz is an American neuroscientist working as a NIH Distinguished Scientist and Chief of the Section on Visuomotor Integration at the National Eye Institute.
[2] He submitted his PhD thesis in 1962, even though Olds was hesitant about the title Self-Stimulation and Escape in Response to Stimulation of the Rat Amygdala.
[3] In 1966, Wurtz joined the Laboratory of Neurobiology, National Institute of Mental Health, in Bethesda, Maryland.
He began studies on the visual system of awake in monkeys and made groundbreaking works on neurobiology of vision and eye movements.
[2] His 1969 publications became classic papers on this technique of studying the physiology of the visual system,[4][5][6] and now used by cognitive neuroscientists around the world.