Giacomo Rizzolatti

Giacomo Rizzolatti , born the April 28th 1937 with Kiev - is of Italian nationality. He is professor of physiology at the university of Parma, Italy. He is in the beginning many discoveries in intégrative neuroscience. He is elected associated foreigner with the institute with France, with the Academy of Science.

Major discoveries

One owes him of the observations very innovating on the cerebral activity in the monkey, showing how, in this animal, the mental image of a movement to be carried out could be built by imitation of the experimenter - what makes reconsider the concept of Empathie had with the neurons mirrors .

Curriculum vitae

1961 - Doctor of medicine, University of Padoue (Italy)
1964 - Specialization in neurology, University of Padoue
1969 - Libero Docente human physiology, Rome (Italy)
1964-1967 - Assisting in human physiology, University of Pisa (Italy)
1967-1969 - Assisting in human physiology, University of Parma (Italy)
1969-1975 - Professor associated with human physiology, University of Parma
1975-present - Professor of human physiology, University of Parma
1988-1991 - President off the Scientific Committee European Program Training in Brain and Behavior Research, European Science Foundation
2002-at this day - Director of the department of neuroscience, University of Parma

He is member

1989 Member off the Academia Europaea
1999 Honorary doctor, University Claude Bernard, Lyon
2002 Member off the Accademia dei Lincei (Italy)
2002 Honorary Foreign Member off the American Academy off Arts and Sciences

Rewards

1982 Golgi Prize for Physiology, Accademia dei Lincei
1999 George Miller Award, Cognitive Neuroscience Society (the USA)
2000 Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine, Accademia dei Lincei
2005 Herlitzka Prize for Physiology, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (Italy)

Works

From Monkey Brain to Human Brain, with Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-Rene Duhamel, Marc D. Hauser

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