Chris Frith
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Professor Chris Frith FRSFBA |
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Frith at the Functional Imaging Laboratory, 2007
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| Born | Christopher Donald Frith 16 March 1942 |
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Christ's College, Cambridge (1960–1963) University of London (Institute of Psychiatry (1964–1969) |
| Thesis | Individual differences in pursuit rotor and tapping skills (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Eysenck |
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Geraint Rees Sarah-Jayne Blakemore |
| Spouse | Uta Frith |
| Children | 2 |
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Christopher Donald Frith, FRS, FBA (born 16 March 1942) 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, Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Quondam Fellow of All Souls College.
Chris Frith was born in 1942 in Cross In Hand, Sussex and educated at The Leys School, Cambridge, before reading Natural Sciences at Christ's College, University of Cambridge. After graduation, he completed a Diploma in Abnormal Psychology and Ph.D. at the Institute of Psychiatry in 1969 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 194. 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. 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. 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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