Giacomo Rizzolatti

Giacomo Rizzolatti (born 28 April 1937^[1]) 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. He also proposed the premotor theory of attention.^[2] 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.^[3] He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea,^[4] National Academy of Sciences,^[5] and Royal Society^[4]

Giacomo Rizzolatti
Born	(1937-04-28) 28 April 1937 (age 88) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	University of Padua
Known for	Mirror neurons
Awards	Golgi Prize for Physiology George Miller Award Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine (2000) Herlitzka Prize for Physiology Brain Prize for Neurosciences
Scientific career
Fields	Neurophysiology
Institutions	University of Parma
Academic advisors	Giuseppe Moruzzi

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; Rizzolatti, Giacomo; Orban, Guy A. (2005). "Observing Others: Multiple Action Representation in the Frontal Lobe". Science. 310 (5746): 332–336. Bibcode:2005Sci...310..332N. doi:10.1126/science.1115593. PMID 16224029. S2CID 18812275.
• Rizzolatti, Giacomo; 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.