Honors
2015 APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
2014 Thomas Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
2014 Prix LIRE, best science book of 2014 for Le Code de la Conscience (French version of
Consciousness and the brain)
2014 The Grete Lundbeck Brain Prize (with G. Rizzolatti and T. Robbins)
2014 Mind & Brain Prize (University of Turin)
2014 Member, EMBO
2014 Member, Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium
2013 Grand Prix INSERM
2013 Honorary diploma, HEC Paris
2013 Prize of the Fondation Roger de Spoelberch
2011 Doctor, honoris causa, University of Lisbon
2011 Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, France
2010 Honorary Professor, East China Normal University (Shanghai)
2010 Foreign associate, National Academy of Sciences USA
2010 Corresponding Fellow, British Academy
2010 Member, American Philosophical Society
2008 Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science
2008 Member, Pontifical Academy of Sciences
2008 French National Order of Merit
2008 Member, Academia Europae
2007 Grand Prix RTL-Lire, best science book for Les neurones de la lecture (French version of
Reading in the brain)
2007 Gold medal, French Association Arts-Sciences-Lettres
2005 Member, French Academy of Sciences
2003 Louis D. Prize, Institut de France (with D. Le Bihan)
2002 Pius XI medal, Pontifical Academy of Sciences
2002 Boehringer-Ingelheim award, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
2001 Jean-Louis Signoret Prize, IPSEN Foundation
2000 Villemot Prize, French Academy of Sciences
1999 James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship
1999 Jean Rostand Award for best general-audience scientific book for La Bosse des Maths (French
version of The Number Sense)
1996 Fanny Emden Prize, French Academy of Sciences