Robert T. Knight
Robert Thomas Knight is an American neurologist and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience as well as Neurology and Neurosurgery. His work is focused on attention and memory, neuropsychology, physiology, and cognitive neuroscience. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Early life
Knight was born and raised in New Jersey. Knight has one brother, who is a botanist. He received a BS in Physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a M.D. from Northwestern University. After medical school, he did a residency in neurology at UC San Diego followed by postdoctoral research at the Salk Institute. From 1980–1998 he was a Professor in the Neurology Department at UC Davis.Since 2000 he has been a professor at UC Berkeley in the Department of Psychology, and he served as the Director of the UC Berkeley Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute from 2001 to 2011.