Patrick Neville Haggard, FBA, is a cognitive neuroscientist and academic. He is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.

Haggard completed his undergraduate degree at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and then spent a year (1987–88) as a Harkness Fellow at Yale University. He returned to Trinity Hall to complete his PhD, which was awarded in 1991. He then spent three years as a Wellcome Trust prize fellow at the University of Oxford and as a junior research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1995, he joined UCL as a lecturer, and was promoted to senior lecturer in 1998 and to a readership in 2002.[1]

Haggard has published over 500 papers as of 2019. His research has focused on "the cognitive neuroscience of voluntary action" and "the representation of one's own body" by the brain.[2]

In 2014, Haggard was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[3]

In 2016, Haggard was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Haggard, Prof. Patrick Neville", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  2. ↑ "Patrick Haggard", Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  3. ↑ "Professor Patrick Haggard FBA", British Academy. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  4. ↑ "Jean Nicod Prize - INSTITUT JEAN NICOD".
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