Giacomo Rizzolatti
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Giacomo Rizzolatti (born 28 April 1937) is an Italian neurophysiologist who works at the
University of Parma The University of Parma ( it, Università degli Studi di Parma, UNIPR) is a public university in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It is organised in nine departments. As of 2016 the University of Parma has about 26,000 students. History During the ...
. Born in
Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...
, UkSSR, he is the Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered
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in the
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and
parietal cortex The parietal lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals. The parietal lobe is positioned above the temporal lobe and behind the frontal lobe and central sulcus. The parietal lobe integrates sensory informa ...
of the
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, and has written many scientific articles on the topic. He also proposed the
premotor theory of attention The premotor theory of attention is a theory in cognitive neuroscience proposing that when attention is shifted, the brain engages a motor plan to move to engage with that focus. One line of evidence for this theory comes from neurophysiologica ...
. He is a past president of the
European Brain and Behaviour Society The European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS) is a scientific society founded in 1968 whose stated purpose is the exchange of information between European scientists interested in the relationships between brain mechanisms and behaviour. It is the ...
. Rizzolatti was the 2007 co-recipient, with Leonardo Fogassi and Vittorio Gallese, for the
University of Louisville The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public research university in Louisville, Kentucky. It is part of the Kentucky state university system. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of ...
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for Psychology. He is an elected member of the
Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...
,
National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...
, and
Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...
In 2020 he adheres to
Empathism The Empathic Movement (Italian: ''La Scuola Empatica / Empatismo'') is a literary, artistic, philosophical and cultural movement born in the South of Italy in 2020 within the 'New Cultural Triangle of Ancient Cilento': Omignano - "The Aphorisms Vi ...
.


Awards

*2011
Prince of Asturias Award The Princess of Asturias Awards ( es, Premios Princesa de Asturias, links=no, ast, Premios Princesa d'Asturies, links=no), formerly the Prince of Asturias Awards from 1981 to 2014 ( es, Premios Príncipe de Asturias, links=no), are a series of a ...
for Technical and Scientific Research. These are listed on the right side of the Wikipedia page: * Golgi Prize for Physiology * George Miller Award * Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine * Herlitzka Prize for Physiology


Selected works

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References


Biography at University of Parma


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* 1937 births Living people Members of the French Academy of Sciences Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences University of Padua alumni University of Parma faculty Italian neuroscientists Scientists from Kyiv Italian neurologists {{italy-scientist-stub