David LaBerge

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David LaBerge (born 1929) is a neuropsychologist specializing in the attention process and the role of apical dendrites in cognition and consciousness.

Early life and education

David LaBerge was born in St. Louis, Missouri and received his undergraduate degree from the College of Wooster, and his MA and PhD degrees from Claremont University and Stanford University, respectively.

Career

Dr. LaBerge taught at Indiana University, Bloomington, University of Minnesota, and University of California at Irvine from 1955 until 1997. He was also a member of the adjunct faculty in psychology and biology at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 1997-2007 and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington, Seattle.

In studying the attention process, LaBerge has conducted experiments using response-time methods of cognitive psychology and brain imagining methods of neurobiology, for which he received grants from various national foundations including the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Office of Naval Research (ONR), and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). His 70 publications include papers in the Journal of Neuroscience, Neural Computation, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Perception and Psychophysics and Neuropsychologia, chapters in books, and the book Attentional Processing: The Brain’s Art of Mindfulness (Harvard University Press, 1995).

His most recent articles are "Sustained attention and the apical dendrite in recurrent circuits", "Apical dendrite activity in cognition and consciousness", and "The apical dendrite theory of consciousness" with Ray Kasevich are published in Brain Research Reviews, Consciousness and Cognition and Neural Networks, respectively. These articles open a new approach to understanding how brain activity produces our everyday processing of information about objects and also produces our subjective experiencing of their impressions.

In 2006 and 2007, LaBerge collaborated with his daughter, Anne La Berge on a work entitled Resonant Dendrites, a performance work on LaBerge's apical dendrite theory using film, narrative voice samples and music.^[1]

Life

His major extracurricular activity was to serve for 21 years as Music Director and Conductor of the Minnesota Bach Society Orchestra and Chorus from 1959 to 1980 and he is currently director of the South Sound Classical Choir in the Tacoma, WA area.

He resides in Tacoma, Washington with his wife Janice Lawry.

References

1. ^ Resonant Dendrites (lecture/performance by David LaBerge and Anne La Berge), UCI Department of Cognitive Sciences, March 4, 2009, http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/event.php?eid=1161, retrieved 2010-01-28 

Further reading

• LaBerge, David. "Attentional Processing: The Brain’s Art of Mindfulness", Harvard University Press, 1995

External links

• David LaBerge
• Apical Dendrite Function

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