Biography:Patrick Haggard
Patrick Neville Haggard, FBA, is a cognitive neuroscientist and academic. He is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. Haggard completed his undergraduate degree at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and then spent a year (1987–88) as a Harkness Fellow at Yale University. He returned to Trinity Hall to complete his PhD, which was awarded in 1991. He then spent three years as a Wellcome Trust prize fellow at the University of Oxford and as a junior research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1995, he joined UCL as a lecturer, and was promoted to senior lecturer in 1998 and to a readership in 2002.[1]
Haggard has published over 500 papers as of 2019. His research has focused on "the cognitive neuroscience of voluntary action" and "the representation of one's own body" by the brain.[2]
In 2014, Haggard was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[3]
In 2016, Haggard was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize.[4]
References
- ↑ "Haggard, Prof. Patrick Neville", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ↑ "Patrick Haggard", Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ↑ "Professor Patrick Haggard FBA", British Academy. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ↑ "Jean Nicod Prize - INSTITUT JEAN NICOD". http://www.institutnicod.org/prix-jean-nicod-1405/?lang=en.
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