| Citation | Professor Frith is distinguished for his contributions to research in schizophrenia and cognitive neuroscience. He developed a widely accepted cognitive theory which explains hallucinations and delusions in schizophrenia by a deficit in self-monitoring of thoughts and actions. More recently he has been a pioneer in the use of brain and imaging to study and to identify brain systems underlying intended action, attention and self-awareness. He showed that these systems function abnormally in schizophrenia |