Jon Driver

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Driver
Born	(1962-07-04)4 July 1962 Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Died	28 November 2011(2011-11-28) (aged 49) London, United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Spouse	Nilli Lavie (2 children)
Awards	Spearman Medal (1994) Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2005) Fellow of the British Academy (2008)
Scientific career
Fields	Cambridge University Birkbeck, University of London

Jonathon Stevens "Jon Driver" (4 July 1962 – 28 November 2011) was a psychologist and neuroscientist. He was a leading figure in the study of perception, selective attention and multisensory integration in the normal and damaged human brain.

Education

Driver was born in

Driver received many prestigious awards during his career, including the Spearman Medal of the British Psychological Society, the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) Prize, and the EPS Mid-Career Award. He was also awarded a Royal Society-Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. From 2009, Driver held a Royal Society Anniversary Research Professorship (one of only six scientists selected across all disciplines).^[5]

Research

Driver's research focused on selective attention, spatial cognition and

Driver was brought up in Hull and attended Hymers College, where he played cello in the school orchestra and also played bass guitar in a number of bands in Hull.^[11] From his teens onwards he was a devoted and expert fly fisherman, which he pursued in the chalk streams of southern England.

He took his own life in London on 28 November 2011, aged 49, ten months after shattering his knee in a motorcycle accident which left him in debilitating chronic pain.^[1][12] He is survived by his wife, Nilli Lavie, and their two sons.^[1]

Jon Driver Prize

To honour the memory of Jon Driver, a group of friends and colleagues established the Jon Driver Prize. Reflecting Jon Driver’s commitment to mentorship and his seminal contribution to promoting neuroscience at UCL, the prize is awarded competitively every year to recognise high-quality research of students completing their PhD in the field of neuroscience at UCL.

Selected publications

• Driver, J.; Baylis, G.C.; Rafal, R.D. (1992). "Preserved figure-ground segregation and symmetry perception in visual neglect". Nature. 360 (6399): 73–5.
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• Driver, J. (1996). "Enhancement of selective listening by illusory mislocation of speech sounds due to lip-reading". Nature. 381 (6577): 66–68.
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• Driver, J.; Mattingley, J.B. (1998). "Parietal neglect and visual awareness". Nature Neuroscience. 1 (1): 17–22.
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• Macaluso, E.; Frith, C.D.; Driver, J. (2000). "Modulation of Human Visual Cortex by Crossmodal Spatial Attention". Science. 289 (5482): 1206–8.
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• Vuilleumier, Patrik; Armony, Jorge; Driver, Jon; Dolan, Raymond (2001). "Effects of Attention and Emotion on Face Processing in the Human Brain: An Event-Related fMRI Study". Neuron. 30 (3): 829–41.
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• Spence, C.; Driver, J. (2004). Crossmodal space and crossmodal attention. USA: Oxford University Press.
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• Ruff, C. C.; Blankenburg, F.; Bjoertomt, O.; Bestmann, S.; Freeman, E.; Haynes, J. D.; Rees, G.; Josephs, O.; Deichmann, R.; Driver, J. (2006). "Concurrent TMS-fMRI and Psychophysics Reveal Frontal Influences on Human Retinotopic Visual Cortex". Current Biology. 16 (15): 1479–1488.
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• Driver, J.; Blankenburg, F.; Bestmann, S.; Ruff, C. C. (2010). "New approaches to the study of human brain networks underlying spatial attention and related processes" (PDF). Experimental Brain Research. 206 (2): 153–62.
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