In 2014, Professor Uta Frith was listed as one of the most eminent
psychologists of the modern era by the American Psychological Association. An
expert on both autism and dyslexia, her books include Autism: Explaining
the Enigma, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, The Learning Brain:
Lessons for Education (co-authored with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore) and A
Very Short Introduction to Autism.
She is currently serving as President of the British Science Association,
and, as a passionate champion for women in science, chairs the Royal Society’s
Diversity Committee. She has presented several documentaries on neuropsychology
for BBC Horizon, and appeared on Desert Island Discs and The Life
Scientific on BBC Radio 4.
Uta is a fellow of the Royal Society, British Academy, Academy of Medical
Sciences, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and a foreign member
of the National Academy of Sciences USA. In 2014, she was jointly awarded the
Jean-Nicod Lecture Series Prize with her husband, Professor Christopher Frith.
Uta and Christopher have co-authored multiple articles on social cognition,
and blog together at http://frithmind.org/socialminds/blog/. Uta tweets at @UtaFrith.
Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of Brains, Minds and Human Interaction was published this year by Bloomsbury in the UK and Scribner in the US.
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