Dr. Morris Moscovitch
ProfessorPsychology Department
University of Toronto
Consultant
Psychology Department
Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
Senior Scientist
Rotman Research Institute
Research Focus
My research program is concerned with the cognitive neuroscience of memory, attention, and face-recognition in neurologically normal young and old people and in people with focal or degenerative brain lesions. My studies on memory include investigations of: amnesia for recently-acquired (anterograde amnesia) and remote memories (retrograde amnesia); confabulation and other memory distortions in people with medial temporal and frontal lobe lesions; the role of attention during memory encoding and retrieval; the interaction of psychosocial factors and brain mechanisms that affect quality of life and cognition in the elderly; and the role of consciousness in memory. I am also conducting research on face and object recognition in young and old adults and in people with focal lesions that selectively affect either recognition of faces, objects, or words, to learn what distinguishes perception of one kind of material from another. Funding is provided by the Medical Research Council of Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.Publications
Education
1972 PhD, Psychology
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1967 MA, Psychology
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1966 BSc, Psychology
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Academic Appointments
1986-2005 Consultant
Psychology Department at Baycrest Centre, Toronto, Canada;
1989-2005 Senior Scientist
Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre, Toronto, Canada;
1980-2005 Professor Psychology Department at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;
1976-1980 Associate Professor with Tenure
Psychology Department at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario;
1971-1976 Assistant Professor
Psychology Department at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario;
Links
Human Neuropsychology & Cognitive Science LabWeb Profiles
University of Toronto Web PageContact
The Rotman Research InstituteBaycrest
3560 Bathurst Street, 946
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada M6A 2E1
Phone: 416-785-2500 x3132
Fax: 416-785-2862
Email: mmoscovitch
rotman-baycrest.on.ca
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Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
100 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 3G3
Phone: 416-978-7815
Fax: 416-978-4811
Email: momos
psych.utoronto.ca