Michael M Merzenich
WM Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Michael M. Merzenich is a professor emeritus neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco. His contributions to the field are numerous. He took the sensory cortex maps developed by his predecessors like Archie Tunturi, Clinton Woolsey, Vernon Mountcastle, Wade Marshall, and Philip Bard, and refined them using dense micro-electrode mapping techniques. Using this, he definitively showed there to be multiple somatotopic maps of the body in the postcentral sulcus,and multiple tonotopic maps of the acoustic inputs in the superior temporal plane
Defining the neural bases of learning, recognition and memory; defining mechanisms underlying the origins of functional brain illnesses and disabilities; and developing training strategies for remediating learning-disabled and movement-disabled adults and children.
