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Lawrence Parsons

Neuroscientist

Lawrence Parsons is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. His early research on action, spatial reasoning and object recognition was followed by his current work in reasoning, language, emotion and the improvisation of music and dancing.

From 2001-2003, he was responsible for establishing a cognitive neuroscience program at the National Science Foundation. He organized the first public forum on music and brain (at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London) and the first on the cognitive neuroscience of dance (at the Wellcome Institute, London).

Parsons is a trustee of the International Foundation for Music Research, on the Editorial Board of the Social Neuroscience, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, He has published papers in Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), Journal of Neuroscience, Proceedings of the Royal Society (UK), Scientific American, and Trends in Cognitive Science.

He was trained in cognitive and neural sciences at UCSD and MIT, and was associate professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center.

Past Programs Featuring Lawrence Parsons

Friday, June 12, 2009 | 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

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