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Margaret Stratford Livingstone is the Takeda Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School in the field of visual perception. Livingstone received her PhD from Harvard University in 1981 working with Edward Kravitz, after which she worked as a postdoctoral fellow under David H. Hubel at Harvard University. She authored the book Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing. She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Margaret Livingstone’s work has been involved in some controversy. On October 12, 2022, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) posted concerns about the ethics of the animal research conducted by Margaret Livingstone and her colleagues. Harvard Medical School responded to these concerns on October 14, 2022, stating that the article by PETA contained inaccuracies, and stating that all research conducted at Harvard Medical School follows the guidelines set out by the Animal Welfare Act, the Public Health Service on Humane Care and Use of Animals, and AAALAC International. Science published an article on October 19, 2022 outlining the controversy and response by Harvard Medical School, as well as the response of Catherine Hobaiter, a primatologist who has advocated for the retraction of Livingstone’s publications as well as the termination of her funding and her research at Harvard Medical School. Margaret Livingstone released a personal statement regarding the specifics of the procedures used in her research on October 24, 2022.