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The Pasteur-Weizmann/Servier Prize: a surprise?
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Leading Canadian specialist in cognitive psychology, Professor Endel Tulving, has been awarded the 2009 Pasteur-Weizmann/Servier International Prize for his work on the neuropsychology of memory.
Endel Tulving is one of the world’s most influential cognitive psychologists. Throughout his life, his work has made him a worldwide authority on the functioning of human memory. His ideas and discoveries have influenced theories in this field as well as clinical practice relating to the diagnosis and treatment of subjects presenting memory disorders. His research has thrown light on the ways in which the mechanisms of memory govern our lives. In 1995, he posited a model of the organisation of the memory based on five systems: working memory, episodic memory, semantic memory, procedural memory and perceptive memory.
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Presentation of the 2009 Prize
The winner of the 2009 Pasteur-Weizmann/Servier International Prize, taking as its theme this year the neuropsychology of memory, has been announced on Thursday 26 November 2009 at 12 noon at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris as part of a Servier Institute colloquium on the subject of memory.
During this colloquium, leading French neuropsychology specialists looked at the following subjects: Memory and our future, our different types of memory, organisation of memory, images of memory, selective memory and loss of memory, trauma and memory, Alzheimer’s and memory… Memory: a prodigious research subject.
The Pasteur-Weizmann/Servier International Prize for biomedical research with a therapeutic aim is awarded every three years to a top-level researcher, scientist or physician, internationally renowned for their major contribution to a biomedical discovery leading to a therapeutic application. The prize concerns themes that are of joint interest to the Pasteur-Weizmann Committee and the Servier Institute with the aim of promoting and encouraging fundamental research, in particular the transition from laboratory research to medical therapy.
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