Raymond Joseph Dolan (born 21 January 1954) is an Irish neuroscientist and the Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry at

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, where he was also the founding director of the

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Honours and awards

In 2006 he was awarded the

Golden Brain Award The Golden Brain Award is an international science award in the field of neuroscience. It is given by the Berkeley-based Minerva Foundation every year since 1985. The foundation specifically aims at fundamental contributions to research in visio ...

by the

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. In 2015 he presented the Paul B. Baltes Lecture at the

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. He was one of three recipients of the 2017

Brain Prize The Brain Prize, formerly known as The Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize, is an international scientific award honouring "one or more scientists who have distinguished themselves by an outstanding contribution to neuroscience and who are ...

, along with

Peter Dayan Peter Dayan is a British neuroscientist and computer scientist who is director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, along with Ivan De Araujo. He is co-author of ''Theoretical Neuroscience'', an influent ...

and Wolfram Schultz. He is a fellow of the

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, the

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, and the

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. In 2016, he was ranked by

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as the second-most influential neuroscientist in the modern world, behind only his UCL colleague

Karl Friston Karl John Friston FRS FMedSci FRSB (born 12 July 1959) is a British neuroscientist and theoretician at University College London. He is an authority on brain imaging and theoretical neuroscience, especially the use of physics-inspired stati ...

. In 2019 he was awarded the Ferrier Medal and Lecture by the

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Honours and awards

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