Asif A. Ghazanfar (born 20 April 1972) is an American neuroscientist. He received one of the two

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for 2013. He was born in

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. He graduated from

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with a degree in

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

in 1994 and received his

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from

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in 1999. He is a member of the Editorial Board for ''

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,'' and co-director (with

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) o
The Animal Song Collective
Based at Princeton University, the project brings together humanists and scientists to explore the very idea of “animal song” from a cross-disciplinary and collaborative perspective. He was the head of college for the Princeton University residential college

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