Richard Henson (neurobiologist)

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Rik Henson
Born1970 (age 5455)
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh
Known forHuman memory, neuroimaging
Awards
  • BPS Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Research
  • EPS Prize for Young Researcher
  • President British Neuroscience Association
  • Fellow of the British Academy
Scientific career
InstitutionsMRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge (2004 onwards) Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (1997-2004)
Thesis Short-term memory for serial order  (1997)
Website mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.henson/personal

Richard "Rik" Henson, FBA (born 1970) is a British cognitive neuroscientist and academic. He is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, where he works at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, England. He studies the neural bases of human memory. [1] From 2021 to 2023, he is also President of the British Neuroscience Association. [2]

In 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [3]

Publications

His most famous articles are:

References

  1. Personal Website at University of Cambridge
  2. "Our Governance & People". British Neuroscience Society.
  3. "Professor Rik Henson FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 11 August 2022.