Background
Chris Frith was born in 1942 in Cross In Hand, Sussex and educated at The Leys School, Cambridge, and Christ"s College, Cambridge.
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Christopher Donald Frith, Federal Reserve System, Federal Bar Association is a psychologist and professor emeritus at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London, Visiting Professor at the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University, Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Quondam Fellow of All Souls College.
Education
Chris Frith was born in 1942 in Cross In Hand, Sussex and educated at The Leys School, Cambridge, and Christ"s College, Cambridge. After reading Natural Sciences, he studied for a Diploma in Abnormal Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, Frith completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1969 at the Institute of Psychiatry under the supervision of Hans Eysenck.
Career
His primary research interest is in the applications of functional brain imaging to the study of social cognition, although he is also well known for his earlier seminal work characterising the cognitive basis of schizophrenia. He has published over 500 papers in peer reviewed journals and has an h-index of 146. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the British Academy, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
In September 2008, a festschrift was organized in his honour by The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Achievements
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He is the author of a number of important neuroscience books, including the classic The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia (1992/2015) and the popular science book Making up the Mind (2007), which was on the long list for the Royal Society Science Book Award in 2008. In 2009 he was awarded the Fyssen Foundation Prize for his work on neuropsychology and he and Uta Frith were awarded the European Latsis Prize for their work linking the human mind and the human brain. In 2014 he and Uta Frith were awarded the Jean Nicod Prize for their work on social cognition.
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Royal Society.
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Fellow of the Royal Society; International Prize Jean Nicod Prize; the Royal Society Science Book Award; Fyssen Foundation Prize; European Latsis Prize
The Jean Nicod Prize is awarded annually in Paris to a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically-oriented cognitive scientist.The Jean Nicod Prize is awarded annually in Paris to a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically-oriented cognitive scientist.