Christopher Donald Frith (born March 16, 1942, United Kingdom

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) is professor emeritus at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging

Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging

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 at University College London

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 and a Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr

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 Visiting Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. His primary interest is in the applications of functional brain imaging

Neuroimaging

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 to the study of higher cognitive functions

Cognition

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 in humans, although he is also well known for his earlier seminal work characterising the cognitive basis of schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

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With an h-index

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 of 122 and over 400 publications, Frith is an Institute for Scientific Information highly cited researcher. 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), which achieved the long list for the Royal Society Science Book Award in 2008. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society

Royal Society

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, the British Academy

British Academy

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, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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. In 2009 he was awarded the Fyssen Foundation Prize

International Prize (Fyssen Foundation)

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 for his work on neuropsychology and he and Uta Frith

Uta Frith

Uta Frith FRS FBA is a leading developmental psychologist working at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. She has pioneered much of the current research in autism and dyslexia, and has written several books on these issues. Her book 'Autism: Explaining the Enigma'...

 were awarded the European Latsis Prize

European Latsis Prize

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 for their work linking the human mind and the human brain. In September 2008, a festschrift

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 was organized in his honour by The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Chris Frith is the brother of Fred Frith

Fred Frith

Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor.Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew...

, a guitarist, Simon Frith

Simon Frith

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, a musicologist, and Barney Frith, a property lawyer. He is the husband of Uta Frith

Uta Frith

Uta Frith FRS FBA is a leading developmental psychologist working at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. She has pioneered much of the current research in autism and dyslexia, and has written several books on these issues. Her book 'Autism: Explaining the Enigma'...

, a developmental psychologist

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 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

Editorial board

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 of Biology Letters

Biology Letters

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, dealing with papers on neurobiology

Neuroscience

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