# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-prinz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:54:41.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-prinz"
name: "Wolfgang Prinz"
slug: "wolfgang-prinz"
description: "Wolfgang Prinz is a German cognitive psychologist. He is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and an internationally recognized expert in experimental psychology, cognitive psychology and philosophy of mind. He is the founder of the common coding theory between perception and action that has a significant impact in cognitive neuroscience and social cognition."
tagline: "German cognitive psychologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wolfgang_Prinz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-09-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           4.605436
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.cbs.mpg.de/mitarbeiter/prinz"
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    title: "فولفجانج برينز"
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    title: "Wolfgang Prinz"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Prinz"
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    title: "ولفگانگ پرینز"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump