Wolf Singer
Date: June 30
Time: 19:00 – 20:00 hrs
Location: De Balie, Amsterdam
Wolf Singer is Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and the Ernst-Strungmann Institute for Neuroscience in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His research aim is to elucidate the neuronal processes of higher cognitive performance, such as in the case of visual perception, in memory, or in other ways of cognition. Prof. Singer is internationally known for his research and reflections on the physiological basis of attention and identification procedures, and is widely recognized and a leader in the field of cognitive neuroscience.
The Frijda Chair is named after Nico Frijda (1927-2015), who was emeritus professor of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam and a pioneer of cognitive science in the Netherlands. Each year, the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition center at his alma mater awards this chair to a prominent researcher in the field of brain and cognitive sciences, on the basis of outstanding interdisciplinary achievements.
Earlier recipients of the Frijda Chair:
2016 | Josh Tenenbaum The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA 2015 | Mark T. Wallace Vanderbilt Brain Institute |
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| 2014 | Micheal Meaney
McGill University, Canada. |
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| 2013 | Christine van Broeckhoven
University of Antwerp, Belgium |
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| 2012 | Kevin LaBar
Duke University, USA |
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| 2011 | Adele Diamond
University of British Columbia, Canada |
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| 2010 | Ernst Fehr
University of Zürich, Switzerland |
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| 2009 | Christof Koch
California Institute of Technology, USA |
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| 2008 | James McClelland
Stanford University, USA |
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| 2007 | Harald Clahsen
University of Essex, UK |
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| 2006 | Annette Karmiloff-Smith
University College London, UK |
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| 2005 | Michael Tomasello
Max Planck, Leipzig, Germany |
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| 2004 | Richard Morris
University of Edinburgh, UK |
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| 2003 | Keith Stenning
University of Edinburgh, UK |