Endel Tulving#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1736 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 1996 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CANADA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~gcpws/Tulving/Biography/Tulving_bio5.html |
Endel Tulving passed away September 11, 2023.
Positions Held
- Professor emeritus at the University of Toronto
- Tanenbaum Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre in Toronto
- Clark Way Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis
Fields of Scholarship
- Episodic memor
- Amnesia
- Human memory
Honours and Awards
- 1979 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- 1983 Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award, American Psychology Association
- 1986 Foreign Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1988 Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 1991 Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 1992 Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- 1994 Killam Prize, Canada Council
- 1994 Gold Medal Award for Lifetime Achievement, American Psychological Foundation
- 1996 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1996 McGovern Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2002 Foreign Member, Estonian Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Gairdner Foundation International Award
"for pioneering research in the understanding of human memory, and providing the necessary framework within which findings in neuroanatomy, neuroplysiology, and neuropharmacology can be integrated"
- 2006 Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor
- 2007 Inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
