Sir Colin Blakemore

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Communications, Culture, History of art, Neuroscience, Philosophy

Research keywords:

Vision, Cognitive neuroscience, Perception, Visual arts, Plasticity of the brain, Development of the brain, Philosophy of mind, Cultural evolution

Summary of research interests and expertise:

Professor Sir Blakemore was appointed Director of the Centre for the Study of the Senses at the Institute of Philosophy in October 2012. He is one of Britain's leading scintists. He is a renowned expert on vision, and on the development and plasticity of the brain. He speaks and advises on a number of public issues, including chairing the Royal Society’s recent Brain Waves project, reviewing the policy implications of developments in neuroscience, which included reports on Neuroscience and Education and Neuroscience and the Law. Colin Blakemore is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was a previous Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council. He has been a Reith Lecturer and given the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. He has been honoured by many countries, including India and China, and has ten honorary degrees. Colin is Principal investigator on the 'Rethinking the Senses' project, supported by a £2million grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of their Science in Culture programme. In addition, in 2013, he established 'The Human Mind Project', an international effort to define the major intellectual challenges in understanding the nature and significance of the human mind, linking work in the humanities and the sciences, especially cognitive neuroscience.

Languages:

	Spoken	Written
French	Intermediate	Intermediate

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
13-Mar-2017	No evidence to back idea of learning styles Journal articles  Hood, B and 29 other, including Blakemore, C (2017) Letter to the Editor. Guardian 13 March 2017.
20-Dec-2016	Folic acid in flour would save hundreds of babies Articles  Blakemore, C (2016) Daily Mail, 20 December 2016, p 51.
01-Dec-2016	Report of the 10th RIKEN Advisory Council (RAC) Conference papers  Blakemore, C. et al (2016) Report of the 10th RIKEN Advisory Council (RAC). December 2016
13-Sep-2016	Primate research is crucial if we are to find cures for diseases like Parkinson's Journal articles  Walker, J., Blakemore, C., Benabid, A., DeLong, M. et al (2016) Letter to the Editor. Guardian, 13 September 2016.
01-Aug-2016	Tierversuche in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft/Animal Research in the Max Planck Society. Monographs  Munich: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
17-Jun-2016	Rights and wrongs of making drugs illegal Journal articles   Letter to the Editor, The Times, 17 June 2016, p 36.
01-Feb-2016	Into the third dimension Journal articles   Classics of Vision Science. J. Vision. 16: 24-25. doi: 10.1167/16.4.18. February 2016

Research Projects & Supervisions

Research projects:

Details
Rethinking the Senses: Uniting the Philosophy and Neuroscience of Perception Institute of Philosophy Project period: 01-Oct-2013 - 30-Jun-2017 Research interests: Cultural memory, Neuroscience, Philosophy
Subjectivity, agency and social cognition challenges for eductionist accounts of the mind School of Advanced Study Project period: 01-Oct-2015 - 18-Nov-2017 Research interests: Neuroscience, Philosophy, Social Sciences
The Human Mind Project School of Advanced Study Project period: 04-Apr-2015 - 31-Dec-2017 Research interests: Culture, Neuroscience, Philosophy

Consultancy & Media

Available for consultancy:

Yes

Media experience:

Yes

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