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In March 2014 it was announced that Professor Trevor Robbins was one of three neuroscientists to be awarded the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation Brain Prize 2014. The two other scientists honoured by this prestigious award were Giacomo Rizzolatti and Stanislas Dehaene. The award ceremony took place in Denmark in May.
In a new paper in Trends in Neurosciences, Kristina Grigaityte and Marco Iacoboni ask why the work of Professors Robbins, Rizzolatti, and Dehaene was singled out for this award, and what, if anything, links their different research themes of impulsivity (Robbins); mirror neurons and social cognition (Rizzolatti); and number sense and space (Dehaene). Grigaityte and Iacoboni conclude that the most important link between their research themes is the potential they offer for the development of treatments for cognitive and behavioural disorders.
The paper is online now: Grigaityte, K., & Iacoboni, M. (2014). The Brain Prize 2014: complex human functions. Trends in Neurosciences. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2014.09.002. (Cambridge users log in via Science Direct.)