- Chris Frith
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Christopher Donald Frith (born March 16, 1942, United Kingdom) is professor emeritus at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London[1] and a Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. His primary interest is in the applications of functional brain imaging to the study of higher cognitive functions in humans, although he is also well known for his earlier seminal work characterising the cognitive basis of schizophrenia.
With an h-index of 122 and over 400 publications, Frith is an Institute for Scientific Information highly cited researcher.[2] He is the author of a number of important neuroscience books, including the classic The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia (1992) and the popular science book Making up the Mind (2007),[3] which achieved 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 2009 he was awarded the Fyssen Foundation Prize for his work on neuropsychology[4] and he and Uta Frith were awarded the European Latsis Prize for their work linking the human mind and the human brain.[5] In September 2008, a festschrift was organized in his honour by The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.[6]
Chris Frith is the brother of Fred Frith, a guitarist, Simon Frith, a musicologist, and Barney Frith, a property lawyer. He is the husband of Uta Frith, a developmental psychologist and the father of the computational biologist, Martin Frith, and the children's book editor, Alex Frith.
Since 2005, Frith has been on the editorial board of Biology Letters, dealing with papers on neurobiology.
References
- ^ "Professor Chris Frith FRS FBA". Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging. http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Frith/. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
- ^ "Frith, Christopher Donald". ISI Highly Cited Researchers Version 1.5. Thompson ISI. http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Browse&link2=Results&id=32. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
- ^ "Making up the Mind - Chris Frith". Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging. http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Frith/Booksite/index.html. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
- ^ "Appointments". Times Higher Education. 2010-02-25. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=410514. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
- ^ "Professors Chris and Uta Frith win the European Latsis Prize 2009". European Science Foundation. http://www.esf.org/media-centre/press-releases/ext-single-news.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=591&cHash=f9c096e10d64912d99dfadd74155d79c. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
- ^ "Festschrift in honour of Chris Frith". Interacting Minds. http://www.interacting-minds.net/Sted/PHOTOS/Pages/Chris_Frith_Festschrift.html. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
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