Uta Frith
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Frith at the Royal Society, 2012
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| Born | Uta Aurnhammer 25 May 1941 Rockenhausen, Germany |
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| Residence | UK | ||
| Citizenship | Germany | ||
| Institutions | University College London (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) | ||
| Alma mater |
Universität des Saarlandes University of London (Institute of Psychiatry) |
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| Thesis | Pattern detection in normal and autistic children (1968) | ||
| Doctoral advisor | Neil O'Connor | ||
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Simon Baron-Cohen Tony Attwood Margaret J. Snowling Francesca Happé Ami Klin |
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| Notable awards |
FRS FBA FMedSci |
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| Spouse | Chris Frith | ||
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Uta Frith, DBE (Hon), FRS,FBA, FMedSci (née Aurnhammer; born 25 May 1941) is a German developmental psychologist working at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. She has pioneered much of the current research in autism and dyslexia, and has written several books on these issues.
Her book Autism: Explaining the Enigma provides an introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of autism. Among the students she has mentored are Tony Attwood,Margaret Snowling,Simon Baron-Cohen and Francesca Happé.
She was born Uta Aurnhammer in Rockenhausen. She completed her undergraduate degree in experimental psychology at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. She trained in clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and went on to complete her Doctor of Philosophy, on pattern detection in normal and autistic children, in 1968.
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