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Chris Frith
FRS FMedSci FBA
Chris Frith in 2012
Born
Christopher Donald Frith

(1942-03-16) 16 March 1942 (age 82)
EducationThe Leys School
Alma mater
SpouseUta Frith
Children2
AwardsFyssen Foundation Prize
Jean Nicod Prize
European Latsis Prize
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisIndividual differences in pursuit rotor and tapping skills (1969)
Doctoral advisorHans Eysenck
Doctoral students
Website

Christopher Donald Frith FRS, FMedSci, FBA, FAAAS (born 16 March 1942) is a British psychologist and professor emeritus at the Wellcome Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London.[3] He is also an affiliated teacher at the Interacting Minds Centre[4] at Aarhus University, Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy[5] and Quondam Fellow [6]of All Souls College, Oxford since 2013[7].

Education

Chris Frith was born in 1942 in Cross in Hand, Sussex and educated at The Leys School in Cambridge, before reading Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate student at Christ's College, Cambridge. After graduatingi in 1969, he completed a Diploma in Abnormal Psychology and a PhD [8] at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, under the supervision of Hans Eysenck.[9]

Research

Chris Frith has published >500 papers[10] in peer reviewed journals, of which ~150 papers have >400 citations[10] (where 400 citations may be regarded as a citation classic[11]) and has an h-index of 225[10]. He is the author of a number of neuroscience books, including the classic The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia (1992), revised and issued (2015)[12], which won the British Psychological Society Book Award [13] in 1996[14]. He also wrote the popular science book Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World (2007),[15] which was on the long list for the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books in 2008 and Two Heads: Where Two Neuroscientists Explore How Our Brains Work with Other Brains [16] in 2022.

His former doctoral students include Geraint Rees[1] and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore.[2]

Chris Frith's 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.

Fellowships and awards

Chris Frith was elected a Fellow of The Academy of Medical science (FMedSci)[17], a Fellow of The Royal Society (FRS)[18], a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS)[19] (all in 2000), and a Fellow of The British Academy (FBA)[20] in 2008. He was the President of The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness[21] in 2001.

In September 2008, a two day festschrift was held in honour of Chris Frith at the Royal Society[22]. The topic of this prestigious meeting was 'Mind in the Brain'. Hosts included Ray Dolan, Paul Burgess, Jon Driver and Geraint Rees. In 2009 he was awarded the Fyssen Foundation Prize for his work on neuropsychology[23] and he and Uta Frith were awarded the European Latsis Prize for their work linking the human mind and the human brain.[24] In 2014, he and Uta Frith were awarded the Jean Nicod Prize [25] for their work on social cognition. In 2017 he gave one of the British Academy Evens Prize Lectures [26] and in 2022 he gave the 49th Sir Frederic Bartlett Lecture on the topic 'Consciousness, (meta)cognition and culture.'

Personal life

Chris Frith is the brother of guitarist Fred Frith and musicologist Simon Frith. In 1966 he married Uta Frith, a developmental psychologist. In 2008 they were the subject of a double portrait by Emma Wesley.[27] They have two children.

Bibliography

  • Frith, C.D. (1992) The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hove. Classic Edition, Routledge (2015) Translations: Spanish, Japanese, French, Italian)
  • Frith, C.D. & Johnstone, E.C. (2003) Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. (Translation: Chinese)
  • Frith, C.D. & Wolpert, D.M. (Eds.) (2004) The Neuroscience of Social Interaction: Decoding, imitating and influencing the actions of others. Oxford University Press.
  • Frith, C.D. (2007) Making up the mind: how the brain creates our mental world. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell. (Translations: Spanish, French, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, German, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Flemish)
  • Fleming, S.M., Frith, C.D. (Eds.) (2014) The cognitive neuroscience of metacognition. Springer, Heidelberg.
  • Frith, U., Frith, C.D., Frith, A., and Locke, D. (2022) Two Heads: Where Two Neuroscientists Explore How Our Brains Work with Other Brains. (London: Bloomsbury). (Translation: Korean)
  • Frith, C.D. and Frith, U. (2023) What Makes Us Social? (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press).

References

  1. ^ a b Rees, Geraint Ellis (2000). An investigation of the neural correlates of selective attention using functional imaging in humans. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. OCLC 1006241559.
  2. ^ a b Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne (2000). Recognising the sensory consequences of one's own actions (PhD thesis). University College London. OCLC 1006041934. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.324633.
  3. ^ "Professor Chris Frith". Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
  4. ^ "Interacting Minds Centre". Aarhus University.
  5. ^ "Institute of Philosophy". School of Advance Studies, University of London.
  6. ^ "The Categories of Fellowship. All Soul's College".
  7. ^ "People Listing. All Souls College".
  8. ^ "Individual Differences in Pursuit Rotor and Tapping Skills".
  9. ^ Frith, Christopher Donald (1969). Individual differences in pursuit rotor and tapping skills. copac.jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. OCLC 729774222.
  10. ^ a b c Chris Frith publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  11. ^ "What is a citation clasisc?".
  12. ^ Frith, Christopher Donald (2015). The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia. ISBN 978-1138811614.
  13. ^ "Book Award BPS".
  14. ^ "The Cognitive Psychology of Schizophrenia. Christopher D Frith -Google Books".
  15. ^ Frith, Chris (29 May 2007). Making up the Mind. ISBN 9781405136945. [ISBN missing]
  16. ^ U. Frith, C.D. Frith, A. Frith and D. Locke (2022). Two Heads. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1526601551.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ "Professor Chris Frith. The Academy of Medical Sciences".
  18. ^ "Royal Society Fellows Directory".
  19. ^ "Elected fellows AAAS".
  20. ^ "Professor Chris Frith FBA".
  21. ^ "Past Leadership - theASSC.org".
  22. ^ "Festschrift in honour of Chris Frith". John Law. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  23. ^ "Chris Frith awarded the 2009 Fyssen International Prize". UCL. 31 March 2010.
  24. ^ "Professors Chris and Uta Frith win the European Latsis Prize 2009". UCL. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012.
  25. ^ "Professors Chris and Uta Frith win European Latsis Prize".
  26. ^ "Evens Science Prize".
  27. ^ "Chris & Uta Frith by Emma Wesley 2008".
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