Neal J. Cohen
Neal J. Cohen is a professor of psychology in the Cognitive Neuroscience division of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is appointed as a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois. He is the founding director of the Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory (CNLM), a partnership of the University of Illinois and Abbott Laboratories as of 2011. He is also the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Initiative (IHSI) at the University of Illinois, formed 2014. Cohen is known for his work on memory, amnesia, and learning, particularly his theories of multiple memory systems and the role of the hippocampus in relational memory. He is a co-author of Memory, Amnesia, and the Hippocampal System (1993) and From conditioning to conscious recollection: Memory systems of the brain (2001). Education and career Neal Jay Cohen is the son of Albert and Natalie Cohen. He attended the University of California, San Diego, where he became interested in amnesia and how memory and learning work. After working with Larry Squire, Cohen received his Ph.D. in 1981. He went on to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), first as a postdoctoral researcher,