1. Allan Whitenack Snyder was born on 1942 and is the director of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney, Australia where he holds the 150th Anniversary Chair of Science and the Mind.
10 Facts About Allan Snyder
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Allan Snyder is a co-founder of Emotiv Systems and winner of the International Australia Prize in 1997 and the Marconi Prize in 2001 for his contributions to optical physics.
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Allan Snyder is the Chair of Research on the MindChamps World Research, Advisory and Education Team, with a focus on neuroscience.
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Allan Snyder has appeared on television demonstrating how transcranial magnetic stimulation to the left temporal lobe can induce savant-like skills.
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Allan Snyder's working hypothesis is that once this layer is inactivated, there is a capacity for recalling the minute detail or for performing lightning-quick calculations.
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Allan Snyder won the Harrie Massey Medal and Prize in 1996.
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Allan Snyder was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1990 and is the recipient of their 2001 Clifford Paterson Prize.
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Allan Snyder is a graduate of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University College London.
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Allan Snyder has a DSc from the University of London, a PhD from University College, London, an MS from Harvard University, an SM from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
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The Centre for the Mind is the brainchild of Allan Snyder, and was launched at the Museum of Sydney on 4 August 1997; Oliver Sacks delivered the Foundation Lecture on "Creativity and the Mind" at the public opening on 5 August 1997, at the Australian Academy of Science.