TURNING POINT Jon Simons

摘要

Cognitive neuroscientist Jon Simons is a lecturer in experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK; he arrived at Cambridge after a research fellowship at University College London. Simons recalls two pivotal moments in his career: a move to the United States, and getting his firstgrant.When did you decide to do research into memory and the brain?rnI've known I wanted to do research since high school. A career in research means you have a great deal of freedom to determine the direction of your own work. I don't think I'd be so good at a career in which I was told what to do every day.