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  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United Kingdom Leader Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Chris D. Frith is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their primary fields of study are Psychology and Neuroscience, with a notable focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. Other subfields include Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Philosophy.

The research conducted by Chris D. Frith spans several main topics, including:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research

Chris D. Frith has published extensively in multiple prominent venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Current Biology
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers associated with Chris D. Frith's field of research include:

  • "Knowing Ourselves Together: The Cultural Origins of Metacognition" (2020) published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness" (2023) published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Precision and the Bayesian brain" (2021) published in Current Biology
  • "Pandemics and the great evolutionary mismatch" (2020) published in Current Biology
  • "Consciousness beyond the human case" (2023) published in Current Biology

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Uta Frith
  • Howard Burton
  • Stephen M. Fleming
  • Megan A. K. Peters
  • Cecilia Heyes

Chris D. Frith has contributed to book publications with titles such as "What Makes Us Social?" (2023) published by The MIT Press, and "In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind" (2020) from Open Agenda Publishing eBooks.

Among professional recognitions, they have been named a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Statistical parametric maps in functional imaging: A general linear approach

    K. J. Friston;A. P. Holmes;K. J. Worsley;J.-P. Poline

  • Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain

    Tania Singer;Ben Seymour;John O'Doherty;Holger Kaube

  • Theory of mind.

    Chris Frith;Uta Frith

  • Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognition.

    David M. Amodio;Chris D. Frith

  • Spatial registration and normalization of images

    Karl. J. Friston;J. Ashburner;C. D. Frith;J.-B. Poline

  • Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers

    Eleanor A. Maguire;David G. Gadian;Ingrid S. Johnsrude;Catriona D. Good

  • The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia

    Christopher Donald Frith

  • Development and neurophysiology of mentalizing.

    Uta Frith;Christopher D. Frith

  • Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis

    Chris D. Frith;Uta Frith

  • Functional imaging of 'theory of mind'

    Helen L. Gallagher;Christopher D. Frith

  • The neural correlates of the verbal component of working memory.

    E. Paulesu;C. D. Frith;C. D. Frith;R. S. J. Frackowiak

  • A differential neural response in the human amygdala to fearful and happy facial expressions

    J. S. Morris;C. D. Frith;D. I. Perrett;D. Rowland

  • Functional Connectivity: The Principal-Component Analysis of Large (PET) Data Sets

    K. J. Friston;C. D. Frith;P. F. Liddle;R. S. J. Frackowiak

  • Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others

    Tania Singer;Ben Seymour;John P. O'Doherty;Klaas E. Stephan

  • The Neural Basis of Mentalizing

    Chris D. Frith;Uta Frith

  • Other minds in the brain: a functional imaging study of "theory of mind" in story comprehension.

    P. C. Fletcher;F. Happe;U. Frith;S. C. Baker

  • Comparing functional (PET) images: the assessment of significant change.

    K. J. Friston;C. D. Frith;C. D. Frith;P. F. Liddle;R. S. J. Frackowiak

  • Reading the mind in cartoons and stories: an fMRI study of 'theory of mind' in verbal and nonverbal tasks.

    H. L. Gallagher;F. Happé;Nicola Brunswick;P. C. Fletcher

  • Autism, Asperger syndrome and brain mechanisms for the attribution of mental states to animated shapes.

    Fulvia Castelli;Chris Frith;Francesca Happé;Uta Frith

  • Schizophrenia: a disconnection syndrome?

    Friston Kj;Frith Cd

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Richard S. J. Frackowiak
Richard S. J. Frackowiak École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees University College London
Karl J. Friston
Karl J. Friston University College London
Uta Frith
Uta Frith University College London
Andreas Roepstorff
Andreas Roepstorff Aarhus University
Bahador Bahrami
Bahador Bahrami Max Planck Society
Paul W. Burgess
Paul W. Burgess University College London
Peter F. Liddle
Peter F. Liddle University of Nottingham
Daniel M. Wolpert
Daniel M. Wolpert Columbia University

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