Richard Edward Passingham was born on 16 August 1943 and is a British neuroscientist.
14 Facts About Richard Passingham
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Richard Passingham is an international authority on the frontal lobe mechanisms for decision making and executive control.
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Richard Passingham was educated at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford.
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Richard Passingham is currently Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, and is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.
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Richard Passingham has published over 200 research papers and eight books.
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Richard Passingham has transformed our view of the frontal lobes by his work on the monkey and human brain.
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Richard Passingham carried out early classical studies on the prefrontal cortex in primates, and pioneered our understanding of the premotor and supplementary motor cortex.
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Richard Passingham was at the forefront of extending the use of brain imaging from anatomical 'mapping' into physiology.
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Richard Passingham demonstrated general principles by which the system works as a whole, for example, that the contribution of an area to a task is not static, and that the same area can interact dynamically with one subsystem in one context and with another subsystem in another context.
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Richard Passingham demonstrated that each cortical area has a unique set of inputs and outputs, and has argued that it is these that mainly determine the functions of the area.
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Richard Passingham started by investigating each area of the frontal lobes in macaques, and his earlier findings were summarised in his seminal book 'The Frontal Lobes and Voluntary Action'.
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When brain imaging became available for studies of the human brain, Richard Passingham was amongst the first to use it.
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Richard Passingham carried out PET studies from 1988 at the Hammersmith Hospital and fMRI studies from 1995 at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, where he was among the founding Principal Investigators of the Centre.
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Richard Passingham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009 in recognition of his achievements.