The Brain Prize 2014: complex human functions

Kristina Grigaityte; Marco Iacoboni

doi:10.1016/j.tins.2014.09.002

The Brain Prize 2014: complex human functions

Trends Neurosci. 2014 Nov;37(11):615-7. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.09.002. Epub 2014 Oct 7.

Authors

Kristina Grigaityte¹, Marco Iacoboni²

Affiliations

¹ Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
² Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: Iacoboni@ucla.edu.

PMID: 25303794
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.09.002

Abstract

Giacomo Rizzolatti, Stanislas Dehaene, and Trevor Robbins were recently awarded the 2014 Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize for their 'pioneering research on higher brain mechanisms underpinning such complex human functions as literacy, numeracy, motivated behavior and social cognition, and for their effort to understand cognitive and behavioral disorders'. Why was their work highlighted? Is there anything that links together these seemingly disparate lines of research?

Publication types

Historical Article
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Awards and Prizes*
Behavior / physiology*
Brain / physiology*
History, 21st Century
Humans
Mental Disorders*
Substance-Related Disorders / psychology