Giacomo Rizzolatti

Giacomo Rizzolatti
Born	April 28, 1937 Kiev, Ukraine
Nationality	Italy
Fields	Neurophysiology
Institutions	University of Parma
Alma mater	University of Padua
Academic advisors	Giuseppe Moruzzi
Known for	Mirror neurons
Notable awards	Golgi Prize for Physiology George Miller Award Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine (2000) Herlitzka Prize for Physiology Brain Prize for Neurosciences

Giacomo Rizzolatti (born April 28, 1937^[1]) is an Italian neurophysiologist who works at the University of Parma. Born in Kiev, Ukraine, he is the Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered mirror neurons in the frontal and parietal cortex of the macaque monkey, and has written many scientific articles on the topic. He is a past president of the European Brain and Behaviour Society. Rizzolatti was the 2007 co-recipient, with Leonardo Fogassi and Vittorio Gallese, for the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.^[2]

Awards

• 2011 Prince of Asturias Award 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

• Nelissen, Koen; Luppino, Giuseppe; Vanduffel, Wim; ———; Orban, Guy A. (2005). "Observing Others: Multiple Action Representation in the Frontal Lobe". Science. 310 (5746): 332–336. doi:10.1126/science.1115593. PMID 16224029. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
• ———; Sinigaglia, Corrado (2008). Mirrors In The Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-921798-4.

References

1. Professor Giacomo Rizzolatti, Universita Degli Studi Di Parma Department of Neuroscience
2. 2007- Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallese and Leonardo Fogassi http://grawemeyer.org/psychology/previous-winners/2007-giacomo-rizzolatti-vittorio-gallese-and-leonardo-fogassi.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)

• Biography at University of Parma