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[3]. Visiting Professor at the Interacting Minds Centre[4] at Aarhus University, Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy[5] and Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Chris Frith

FRS FBA
Chris Frith in 2012
Born
Christopher Donald Frith

(1942-03-16) 16 March 1942
EducationThe Leys School
Alma mater
Spouse(s)Uta 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

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 of 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[6].

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[7] in peer reviewed journals and has an h-index of 225 as of GoogleScholar. He is the author of a number of important neuroscience books, including the classic The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia (1992/2015)[8] and the popular science book Making up the Mind (2007)[9], which was on the long list for the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books in 2008. His former doctoral students include Geraint Rees[1] and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore[2].

Awards and honours

Frith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2000, a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2008 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2000.

In September 2008, a festschrift was organised in his honour by The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience[10]. In 2009 he was awarded the Fyssen Foundation Prize for his work on neuropsychology[11] and he and Uta Frith were awarded the European Latsis Prize for their work linking the human mind and the human brain[12]. In 2014, he and Uta Frith were awarded the Jean Nicod Prize[13] for their work on social cognition.

Personal life

Chris Frith is the brother of guitarist Fred Frith and musicologist Simon Frith. He is the husband of Uta Frith, a developmental psychologist. In 2008 they were the subject of a double portrait by Emma Wesley.[14] They have two children.

References
  1. 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. 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. Frith, Christopher Donald (1969). Individual differences in pursuit rotor and tapping skills. copac.jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. OCLC 729774222.
  7. Chris Frith publications indexed by Google Scholar
  8. "The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia". ISBN 1138811610.
  9. "Making up the Mind – Chris Frith".
  10. "Festschrift in honour of Chris Frith". John Law. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  11. "Chris Frith awarded the 2009 Fyssen International Prize". UCL.
  12. "Professors Chris and Uta Frith win the European Latsis Prize 2009". UCL. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012.
  13. "2014 Jean Nicod Prize". Institut Nicod.
  14. "Chris & Uta Frith by Emma Wesley 2008".
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