Jason J S Barton is a neurologist, neuro-ophthalmologist and neuroscientist in visual cognition. He obtained his MD and his neurology residency at the University of British Columbia, and then did a clinical neuro-ophthalmology fellowship at the University of Iowa, followed by a PhD at the University of Toronto with Jim Sharpe. He was assistant and then associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre from 1996 to 2004. He returned to the University of British Columbia as a Canada Research Chair and professor of neurology, ophthalmology and visual sciences, and psychology, where he is director of the clinical neuro-ophthalmology program and the Human Vision and Eye Movement Laboratory. His research focuses on cerebral visual processing and ocular motor control, with a particular emphasis on face recognition, and contextual modulation of antisaccades. He coordinates the website for Canadian Neuro-ophthalmology (www.neuroophthalmology.ca) He has received numerous teaching and research awards at Harvard and UBC, the 1995 Francis McNaughton Award (Canadian Congress of Neurological Sciences), the 1998 Young Investigator of the Year Award (North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society), and the 2005 Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioural Neurology (American Academy of Neurology).
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