Endel Tulving

1927 - 2023

Country of citizenship: Estonia, Canada

Languages spoken, written or signed: English, Estonian

Educated at: University of Toronto, Harvard University

Occupation: neuroscientist, psychologist, university teacher

Award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellow of the Royal Society, Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada Gairdner International Award, William James Fellow Award, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, Pasteur-Weizmann/Servier International Prize, APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, Order of the White Star, 2nd Class, Honorary doctorate of Umeå University, Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, CPA Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science, Howard Crosby Warren Medal

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Endel Tulving (May 26, 1927 – September 11, 2023) was an Estonian-born Canadian experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. In his research on human memory he proposed the distinction between semantic and episodic memory. Tulving was a professor at the University of Toronto. He joined the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences in 1992 as the first Anne and Max Tanenbaum Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and remained there until his retirement in 2010. In 2006, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC), Canada's highest civilian honour. Source: Wikipedia (en)