George R. Mangun is the Director of the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, and Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neurology at the University of California, Davis. In 1998 he was the founding director of the Duke University Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and then in 2002 founded the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. From 2008 to 2015 he served as UC Davis Dean of Social Sciences. He leads the Laboratory for the Neural Mechanisms of Attention, which is supported by grants from NSF, NIH, and corporate and foundation partners. Professor Mangun has consulted on numerous university, U.S. government and international scientific panels and advisory boards, including for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, the Department of Defense, the European Research Council (European Union), the Academy of Finland, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of the Basque Government (Spain), and the Max Planck Society (Germany). He is coauthor of the leading textbook, Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind (W.W. Norton, 2019); now in its fifth edition, the book has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese. Professor Mangun was a Senior Editor of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, the Editor of Cognitive Brain Research, a Senior Editor for Brain Research; he is currently the founding Editor-in-Chief for Frontiers in Cognition, and is a member of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.