
Giacomo Rizzolatti
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 87 |
Date of birth | April 28,1937 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | Kyiv |
Ukraine | |
Citations | 116,600 |
Known for | Mirror neuron |
Books | Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience |
University of Padua | |
Affiliations | University Of Parma |
Education | University of Padua |
Awards | The Brain Prize |
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research | |
Neuronal Plasticity Prize | |
Academic advisor | Giuseppe Moruzzi |
Interests | Neuroscience |
H index | 141 |
Nationality | Italian |
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Giacomo Rizzolatti Life story
Giacomo Rizzolatti is an Italian neurophysiologist who works at the University of Parma. Born in Kyiv, UkSSR, 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.