Congratulations to Professor Chris Frith, Emeritus Professor, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging on being awarded the 2009 Fyssen International Prize.
Professor Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of UCL said:
"Warmest congratulations to Professor Chris Frith upon being the winner of the 2009 Fyssen International Prize. This is a truly exceptional achievement. Fyssen is a French Foundation that promotes scientific inquiry into the cognitive mechanisms, including thought and reasoning, which underlie animal and human behaviour ; their biological and cultural bases, and phylogenetic and ontogenetic development. It prize is awarded annually to a scientist who has conducted distinguished research in the areas supported by the Foundation such as ethology, paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, psychology, epistemology, logic and the neurosciences. The Foundation offers a range of research grants and post-doc study grants, but only one prize."
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