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Leslie Ungerleider

This is an interview with Dr. Leslie Ungerleider, Chief of the laboratory of Brain and Cognition of the NIMH Intramural Research Program held on February 12^th, 2002, in Bethesda, MD.

The interviewer is Dr. Ingrid Farreras of the NIH History Office.

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Farreras:          I wanted to thank you for meeting with you for this oral history.  As I mentioned to you earlier, I am interested in your experiences with the former laboratory of Psychology as well as, more broadly, in you as an NIH scientist so I thought we could start with the earlier years of your life, where you were born, what kind of schooling you had, that type of thing…

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                        Institute had organized a laboratory around Bob WertzWurtz, who had been in NIMH. 

                        Bob Wertz Wurtz was given a bunch of positions but he couldn’t fill them all

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                        Mort’s lab, but administratively, I was in Bob Wertz’s Wurtz’s lab.  I never actually

                        worked with Bob WertzWurtz.

Farreras:          Wasn’t Hal Rosvold still Chief of the Neuropsychology Section – and later the

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Farreras:          So in 1978 and 1979 you were officially working with Bob Wertz Wurtz at the NEI but

                        actually working in Mort’s lab…?

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                        Research] who then approves it or not.  And then a search committee is formed. 

Farreras:          Does the search committee consist of the lab people or of the Scientific Director

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