George R. Mangun is the Director of the Center for Mind and Brain, and Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neurology at the University of California, Davis. He was the founding director of the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain in 2002, has served as (interim) Chair of Psychology, and was Dean of Social Sciences in the College of Letters & Science from 2008-2015. He leads the NIH-supported Laboratory for the Neural Mechanisms of Attention, and serves as Director of the Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, supported by NIMH, NIDA and the Kavli Foundation. 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 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 the Editor of Cognitive Brain Research, a Senior Editor for Brain Research, and served as a Senior and Associate Editor for the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; he is currently the Treasurer and Interim President of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
