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Born Christopher Donald Frith 16 March 1942 (age 82) ( 1942-03-16 ) Institutions Wellcome Trust Centre for NeuroimagingUniversity College London Alma mater 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 students Geraint ReesSarah-Jayne Blakemore Books Making Up the Mind: How the, Schizophrenia: A Very Short Intr, The Cognitive Neuropsy, Esquizofrenia Similar People Uta Frith, Sarah‑Jayne Blake, Geraint Rees, Eve Johnstone, Daniel Wolpert | ||
Empathy - Chris Frith
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.
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Chris frith how the brain creates culture mind brain behavior distinguished lecture
Education
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, Cambridge. After graduation, he completed a Diploma in Abnormal Psychology and PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry in 1969 under the supervision of Hans Eysenck.
Research
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 organised 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.
Personal life
Chris Frith is the brother of Fred Frith, the guitarist, Simon Frith, the musicologist, and Barney Frith, the property lawyer. He is the husband of Uta Frith, the developmental psychologist. In 2008 they were the subject of a double portrait by Emma Wesley. Their children are computational biologist Martin Frith and children's book editor Alex Frith