sentences:  These studies provide fundamental information about higher brain mechanisms, including those involved in vision, cognition, and learning.Sur has received the Charles Judson Herrick Award from the American Association of Anatomists (1983), the A.P.Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1985), the McKnight Neuroscience Development Award (1988), the School of Science Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (2000), the Distinguished Overseas Lectureship of the Australian Neuroscience Society (2000), the Sigma Xi Distinguished Lectureship (2001), and the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (2002), and named among the top 50 alumni of IIT Kanpur (2010).