14 Facts About Endel Tulving

Endel Tulving was born on May 26,1927 and is an Estonian-born Canadian experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist.

Endel Tulving 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.

Endel Tulving briefly studied medicine at Heidelberg University before he immigrated to Canada in 1949.

Endel Tulving completed a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Toronto, and earned a PhD in experimental psychology from Harvard University.

In 1956, Endel Tulving accepted a lectureship at the University of Toronto as a lecturer, where he would remain for the rest of his career.

Endel Tulving served as Chair of the Department of Psychology from 1974 to 1980, and became a Professor in 1985.

Endel Tulving has published at least 200 research articles and chapters, and he is widely cited, with an h-index of 69, and in a Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, he ranked as the 36th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

Endel Tulving's published works in 1970s were particularly notable because it coincided with the new determination by many cognitive psychologists to confirm their theories in neuroscience using brain-imaging techniques.

Endel Tulving has published work on a variety of other topics, including the importance of mental organization of information in memory, a model of brain hemisphere specialization for episodic memory, and discovery of the Endel Tulving-Wiseman function.

Endel Tulving first made the distinction between episodic and semantic memory in a 1972 book chapter.

Endel Tulving has dubbed the process through which a retrieval cue activates a stored memory "synergistic ecphory".

Endel Tulving's research has emphasized the importance of episodic memory for our experience of consciousness and our understanding of time.

Endel Tulving made a distinction between conscious or explicit memory and more automatic forms of implicit memory.

Endel Tulving is a member of seven distinguished societies: Fellow, Royal Society of Canada; Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Fellow, Royal Society of London; Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences; Foreign Member, Academia Europaea; and Foreign Member, Estonian Academy of Sciences.