Science
Chris D. Frith
The Neuroscience of Cooperation
A pioneering British neuroscientist who applied cranial nerve imaging to the study of human cognitive ability and mind.
Lesson Plan
- Lesson Length : 10 Lessons ㆍ 1 hours 15 miutes
- Language : 한국어, English
Revealing the secret of how the brain functions so that humans can have “a social life.”
You're constantly conscious of how others and society see you. But what if being self-conscious means that your brain is functioning well? We live in a time when we have strong attitudes about paying attention to ourselves and a huge desire to find our identities. But we still are social animals. We all worry about how not to get hurt in relationships. Humans everywhere form and maintain order, and establish society. Sometimes, they even put other people's or public interests before individual impulses and desires. Why are we like this?
Chris D. Frith says that our brains are designed to unconsciously control and be conscious of other people's brains and that individual brains are meant to "cooperate" with each other. What makes us social beings? This lecture unlocks the secrets of the mechanism by which how our brains interact with others' brains.
Full Bio
Chris D. Frith
- The founding member of the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at the University College London (2007 – present)
- Professor emeritus of neuropsychology at the University College London (1994 – present)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2000) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000)
- Honorary Doctorate at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (2003)
- Ph.D. in Philosophy (1969)/ Ph.D. in Psychology (1965) at the University of London
- MA at the University of Cambridge
- Jean Nicod Prize (2014)
- Erik Strömgren Medal (2009)
- Fyssen International Prize (2009)
- European Latsis Prize (2009)
- Author of <Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains> (2022), <Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World> (2007), <The Neuroscience of Social Interaction: Decoding, Imitating, and Influencing the Actions of Others> (2004), and <The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia> (1992)
In the 1950s, neuroscience began to develop intensively to understand the functions and structures of the brain through brain nerve imaging. Chris D. Frith is the first scholar to apply this cranial nerve image to his psychological study, <In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind>. He started his research to understand schizophrenia, including hallucinations and delusions, and then in the 1980s, he pioneered the field of applying brain imaging to research the relationship between mental processes and nerve and cognitive functions. Since then, he has been studying the field of social cognitive neuroscience related to the "socially cooperative" biological foundation of humans with his wife, Uta Frith (a leader in the field of research about autism and dyslexia, a neuroscientist).
Chris, professor emeritus of neuropsychology at University College London (UCL), has received numerous honorary degrees from European universities and is also a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society, where fellows are selected in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements and honor in their field. He is also a founding member of an institute that studies the way how the brain generates human behavior, thoughts, and emotions using cranial neuroimaging technology. The institute is leading innovations in neuroimaging technology to improve our understanding of the brain. He is constantly challenging himself to figure out what human "consciousness" is and how it's created.
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