
Lynn Nadel is Regents Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona. His work has focused on the functions of the hippocampus in memory and spatial cognition, and he has promulgated, with collaborators, two highly influential theories in cognitive neuroscience: the cognitive map theory of hippocampal function, and the multiple trace theory of memory. His research has been published in over 200 journal articles, chapters and books. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (US).