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Michael A. Paradiso is an American neuroscientist, currently the Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Vision Research at Brown University. [1] [2] [3]

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  2. "Faculty Teaching Award". brown.edu. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  3. "Paradiso, Michael A." worldcat.org. Retrieved January 29, 2017.