Chris Frith

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Chris Frith (born March 16, 1942, United Kingdom - ) is a psychologist working at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London. His primary interest is in the applications of functional brain imaging to the study of higher cognitive functions in humans.

With over 270 publications, Frith is one of the ISI Highly Cited authors in Neuroscience. He is also author of a number of important neuroscience books, including the classic The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia (1992). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Chris is the brother of Fred Frith, the guitarist, and Simon Frith, the musicologist. He is also the husband of Uta Frith, a leading developmental psychologist.

Since 2005, Chris has been on the editorial board of Biology Letters, dealing with papers in the category, Neurobiology.