Giacomo Rizzolatti

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name = Giacomo Rizzolatti

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birth_date = birth date and age|1937|4|28
birth_place = Kiev, Ukraine
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nationality = flag|Italy
fields = Neurophysiology
workplaces = University of Parma
alma_mater = University of Padua
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academic_advisors = Giuseppe Moruzzi
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awards = Golgi Prize for Physiology
George Miller Award
Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine
Herlitzka Prize for Physiology
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Giacomo Rizzolatti (born April 28, 1937) is an Italian Neurophysiologist who works at the University of Parma. He is the Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered mirror neurons in the frontal and parietal cortex of the macaque monkey, and has written many scientific articles on the topic. He is a past president of the European Brain and Behaviour Society.

elected works

*cite journal |last=Nelissen |first=Koen |authorlink= |coauthors=Luppino, Giuseppe; Vanduffel, Wim; ———; Orban, Guy A. |year=2005 |month= |title=Observing Others: Multiple Action Representation in the Frontal Lobe |journal=Science |volume=310 |issue=5746 |pages=332–336 |doi=10.1126/science.1115593 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite book |title=Mirrors In The Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions |last=——— |first= |authorlink= |coauthors=Sinigaglia, Corrado |year=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=9780199217984 |pages= |url=

References

* [http://www.unipr.it/arpa/mirror/english/staff/rizzolat.htm Biography at University of Parma]