Endel Tulving

Endel Tulving
Born(1927-05-26)May 26, 1927
Petseri, Estonia
DiedSeptember 11, 2023(2023-09-11) (aged 96)
Mississauga, Ontairo, Canada
NationalityCanadian
OccupationPsychologist
Spouse
Ruth Mikkelsaar
(m. 1950; died 2012)
Children2
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Harvard University
ThesisThe Relation of Visual Acuity to Convergence and Accommodation (1957)
Doctoral advisorStanley Smith Stevens
Academic work
InstitutionsYale University
University of Toronto
Baycrest Health Sciences
Doctoral studentsStephan Hamann
Daniel Schacter
Lola Cuddy

Endel Tulving OC FRSC (May 26, 1927 – September 11, 2023) was an Estonian-born Canadian experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. In his research on human memory he proposed the distinction between semantic and episodic memory. Tulving was a professor at the University of Toronto. He joined the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences in 1992 as the first Anne and Max Tanenbaum Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and remained there until his retirement in 2010. In 2006, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC), Canada's highest civilian honour.


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