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Semir Zeki

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Semir Zeki is a British and French neurobiologist who has specialised in studying the primate visual brain and more recently the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire and beauty that are generated by sensory inputs within the field of neuroesthetics.

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2004King Faisal International Prize in Science
1987G L Brown Prize Lecture
1985Golden Brain Award
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences

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Semir Zeki is a British and French neurobiologist who has specialised in studying the primate visual brain and more recently the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire and beauty that are generated by sensory inputs within the field of neuroesthetics. He was educated at University College London (UCL) where he was Henry Head Research Fellow of the Royal Society before being appointed Professor of Neurobiology. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Neuroesthetics at UCL.

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Born 1940 · age 85
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