title: The Brain Prize 2014: complex human functions.
abstract: Giacomo Rizzolatti, Stanislas Dehaene, and Trevor Robbins were recently awarded the 2014 Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize for their 'pioneering research on higher brain mechanisms underpinning such complex human functions as literacy, numeracy, motivated behavior and social cognition, and for their effort to understand cognitive and behavioral disorders'. Why was their work highlighted? Is there anything that links together these seemingly disparate lines of research?
authors.affiliation: Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Grigaityte
authors.affiliation: Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: Iacoboni@ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iacoboni
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001363:Awards and Prizes; D001519:Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology