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Today, McLaughlin is a professor of Mathematics and Neural Science at New York University (NYU), as well as the university's provost. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002, McLaughlin has spent his career developing mathematical models of complex and chaotic systems, with applications from laser beams to the behavior of the visual cortex. His Inaugural Article, published in a recent issue of PNAS (1), describes a model of neurons in a single layer of the primary visual cortex, which is of sufficient lateral extent to describe certain preattentive optical illusions. |
