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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Chris Frith was born in 1942 in Cross In Hand, Sussex and educated at The Leys School, Cambridge, and Christ"s College, Cambridge.
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.
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.
Royal Society.