Honorary Frijda Chair



Frijda Lecture by Matthias Bethge, professor of Computational Neuroscience & Machine Learning at Tübingen University, Germany

https://bethgelab.org

Frijda Lecture June 27th 2024, time TBA
Location: Roeterseiland campus building M, room M1.01
Visiting address: Plantage Muidergracht 12

The Frijda Chair is named after Nico Frijda (1927-2015), who was emeritus professor of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam and a pioneer of cognitive science in the Netherlands. Each year, the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition center at his alma mater awards this chair to a prominent researcher in the field of brain and cognitive sciences, on the basis of outstanding interdisciplinary achievements.

Earlier recipients of the Frijda Chair:
 

2023 | Stephen Maren
Texas A&M University

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2022 | Wolf Singer

Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and the Ernst-Strungmann Institute for Neuroscience in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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2021 | David Huron

Ohio State University, USA

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2020 | Ulman Lindenberger

Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany

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2019 | Greg Siegle

University of Pittsburgh, USA

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2018 | Brian Knutson

Stanford University, USA

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2017 | Jerome Siegel

Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, USA

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2016 | Josh Tenenbaum

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

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2015 | Mark T. Wallace

Vanderbilt Brain Institute

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  2014 | Micheal Meaney

McGill University, Canada.

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2013 | Christine van Broeckhoven

University of Antwerp, Belgium

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2012 | Kevin LaBar

Duke University, USA

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2011 | Adele Diamond

University of British Columbia, Canada

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2010 | Ernst Fehr

University of Zürich, Switzerland

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2009 | Christof Koch

California Institute of Technology, USA

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2008 | James McClelland

Stanford University, USA

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2007 | Harald Clahsen

University of Essex, UK

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2006 | Annette Karmiloff-Smith

University College London, UK

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2005 | Michael Tomasello

Max Planck, Leipzig, Germany

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2004 | Richard Morris

University of Edinburgh, UK

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2003 | Keith Stenning

University of Edinburgh, UK

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