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John Douglas (Doug) Crawford is a Canadian neuroscientist and the scientific director of the Vision: Science to Applications(VISTA) program. He is a professor at York University where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Visuomotor Neuroscience and the title of Distinguished Research Professor in Neuroscience.

Biography
Crawford completed his PhD in Physiology at Western University in 1993 where he was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold medal. He then spent two years as a Medical Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellow at the Montreal Neurological Institute. He joined York University’s Department of Psychology and York Centre for Vision Research as an assistant professor in 1995, where he was awarded an Alfred P Sloan Fellowship and Canadian Medical Research Council Scholarship. He has been awarded several research prizes including the 1995 Polanyi Prize in Physiology/Medicine, the 2002 CIFAR Young Explorer Award (awarded to the “top 20 young investigators in Canada”), the 2004 Steacie prize (awarded to “a scientist or engineer of 40 years of age or less for outstanding scientific research carried out in Canada.”) and the 2016 Canadian Physiological Society Sarrazin Award.

Leadership and Training
Crawford was the founding national coordinator of the Canadian Action and Perception Network (CAPnet), the founding Canadian director of the Brain in Action International Research Training Program , and the founding coordinator of the York Neuroscience Graduate Diploma Program. He is currently the scientific director of Vision: Science to Applications(VISTA), a Canada First Research Excellence Fund supported research program that integrates York University's biological and computational vision research. Crawford has supervised over 60 graduate students and post-docs.

Research
Crawford’s research investigates the neural mechanisms of visuospatial memory and sensorimotor transformations for eye, head, and hand motion. His has contributed to the understanding of the vestibular ocular reflex and Listing’s law, 3D control of eye and head rotations , spatial transformations for aiming gaze , eye-hand coordination  , updating visual space during eye movements , depth perception , ocular dominance , and transsaccadic memory of visual features. Some notable research includes discovering the midbrain neural integrators that hold 3D eye and head orientations between gaze shifts, explaining some symptoms of midbrain damage. His lab was also the first to show that the human parietal lobe retains and updates movement goals gaze-centered coordinates, explaining some symptoms of parietal damage and optic ataxia.