April 23, 2008

James McGaugh, neurobiology & behavior research professor, has received the 2008 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Experimental Psychologists. This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of experimental psychology over the course of their lifetimes. McGaugh’s research examines the ways in which drugs and stress hormones improve and impair memory. He has conducted research on memory and the brain for five decades, and he is founding director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory.