Dr. Morris Moscovitch, a senior scientist at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute, is the 2012 winner of the inaugural Distinguished Career Contributions Award by the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS). The award honours senior cognitive neuroscientists for their distinguished career, leadership and mentoring in the field of cognitive neuroscience. 

Over the past 25 years, Dr. Moscovitch has built an impressive body of research in the areas of memory, attention, and face-recognition and is currently conducting research on face and object recognition in young and old adults and in people with specific brain injuries that selectively affect their ability to recognize faces, objects or words. Dr. Moscovitch, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and holds the Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging.