Author information: Morris Moscovitch, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, holds the Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Ageing. Born in Bucharest, Roumania in 1945, he moved to Israel when he was four and to Canada at seven. He received his B.Sc. at McGill in 1966 while working on memory consolidation with Peter Milner. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania with Paul Rozin where he completed both his M.A. and Ph.D. in 1972 and began his work on human neuropsychology. His dissertation was on hemispheric specialisation. He moved to the University of Toronto, Erindale Campus in 1971 and to the St. George Campus of the University in 2000. In 1973–1974, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Brenda Milner at the at the Montreal Neuological Institute; in 1978–1979 and 2000 a visiting professor at the Hebrew University with Shlomo Bentin, in 1985–1986 at The Institute of Advanced Studies in Jerusalem with Israel Nachshon, and in 1996, 1999–2000 at the University of Arizona with Lynn Nadel. His research interests include memory, face-recognition, attention, and hemispheric specialisation in young and old adults and in people with focal lesions and degenerative disorders. Publishing more than 200 papers, he was elected a Fellow of Divisions 3 and 6 of APA, of AAAS, of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Society of Experimental Psychology. In 2006, he was honoured for promoting neuropsyhology in Israel. In 2007, he received the D.O. Hebb Award for lifetime contributions to research by the Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science Society of Canada. He was named the 2008 recipient of the William James Award for lifetime contributions to experimental psychology by the Association for Psychological Science. He serves on the editorial board of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Cognitive Brain Research, and Cortex. From 2001–2004, he was Co-Editor-in Chief with David Milner of Neuropsychologia, and now is the Reviews editor. From 2005 to 2007, he was Director of Graduate Studies of the Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, and is now the Graduate Chair. His clinical duties include consultant on memory and ageing at the Department of Psychology, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, and as a supervisor at the University of Toronto's clinical extension program. In the early 1980s, he was one of the principal members of a task force that developed and drafted the guidelines for the Canadian Psychological Association to give Clinical Neuropsychology speciality designation. From 2001 to 2007, he served on the Committee for Graduate Training for the College of Psychologists of Ontario which helps draft procedures for training and certification.