Stephen Grossberg is Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems; Emeritus Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering; and Director of the Center for Adaptive Systems at Boston University. For the past 50 years, he has been internationally acknowledged as the most important pioneer and current research leader who models how brains makes minds. Grossberg introduced the paradigm of using nonlinear systems of differential equations to model how brain mechanisms give rise to behavioral functions. In 1957-1958, he introduced widely used equations for short-term memory (STM), or neuronal activation; medium-term memory (MTM), or activity-dependent habituation; and longterm memory (LTM), or neuronal learning and memory. His work focuses upon how individuals adapt autonomously in real-time to unexpected environmental challenges and includes models of vision and visual cognition; consciousness; object, scene, and event recognition; audition, speech and language; development; cognitive information processing; reinforcement learning and cognitive-emotional interactions; navigation; social cognition; sensory-motor control and planning; mental disorders; and neuromorphic technology
