Ferrier Lecture
The Ferrier Lecture is a Royal Society lectureship given every three years "on a subject related to the advancement of natural knowledge on the structure and function of the nervous system".[1] It was created in 1928 to honour the memory of Sir David Ferrier, a neurologist who was the first British scientist to electronically stimulate the brain for the purpose of scientific study.[1]
In its 90-year history, the Lecture has been given 30 times. It has never been given more than once by the same person. The first female to be awarded the honour was Prof. Christine Holt in 2017. The first lecture was given in 1929 by Charles Scott Sherrington, and was titled "Some functional problems attaching to convergence".[2] The most recent lecturer was provided by Prof. Christine Holt, who presented a lecture in 2017 titled "understanding of the key molecular mechanisms involved in nerve growth, guidance and targeting which has revolutionised our knowledge of growing axon tips".[3] In 1971, the lecture was given by two individuals (David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel) on the same topic, with the title "The function and architecture of the visual cortex".[2]
List of Lecturers
| Year | Name | Lecture title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Some functional problems attaching to convergence" | [4] |
| 1932 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Some correlations between skull and brain" | [5] |
| 1935 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Problems connected with the principle of humeral transmission of nervous impulses" | – |
| 1938 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Some problems of localization in the central nervous system" | [6] |
| 1941 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Fatigue following highly skilled work" | [7] |
| 1944 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "The organization of the visual cortex in man" | [8] |
| 1947 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Some observations of the cerebral cortex of Man" | [9] |
| 1950 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Growth and plasticity in the nervous system" | – |
| 1953 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "The contribution of clinical observation to cerebral physiology" | [10] |
| 1956 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Inquiries into the anatomical basis of olfactory discrimination" | [11] |
| 1959 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "The nature of central inhibitory action" | [12] |
| 1962 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Visual adaptation" | [13] |
| 1965 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Physiological properties of vertebrate and invertebrate neurological cells and the movement of substances through the nervous system" | [14] |
| 1968 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Studies of a primates brain and hand" | [15] |
| 1971 | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Torsten Nils Wiesel | "The function and architecture of the visual cortex" | [16] |
| 1974 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Body temperature and fever, changes in our views during the last decade" | [17] |
| 1977 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "The neuron network of the cerebral cortex, a functional interpretation" | [18] |
| 1980 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Cerebral cortex and the design of the eye" | – |
| 1983 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Amino acids and peptides: fast and slow chemical signals in the nervous system" | – |
| 1986 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "The actions of parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves in human micturition, erection and seminal emission, and their restoration in paraplegic patients by implanted electrical stimulators" | – |
| 1989 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Side glances at blindsight, recent approaches to implicit discrimination in human cortical blindness" | [19] |
| 1992 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Seeing depth with two eyes, stereopsis" | [20] |
| 1995 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Behind the scene: an exploration of the visual brain" | [21] |
| 1998 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and synaptic plasticity" | [22] |
| 2001 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Patterning the embryonic brain" | – |
| 2004 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Magnetic brain stimulation: what can it tell us about brain function?" | [23] |
| 2007 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Brain development and brain repair: Molecules and mechanisms that control neuronal wiring" | – |
| 2010 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "Plasticity of the brain: the key to human development, cognition and evolution" | [24] |
| 2013 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "cognitive neuroscience, especially on the role of the hippocampus, and the mechanisms supporting memory and cognition" | [25] |
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "understanding of the key molecular mechanisms involved in nerve growth, guidance and targeting which has revolutionised our knowledge of growing axon tips" | [26] |
| 2019 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "for his work charting the brain activity related to fundamental aspects of human conduct and behaviour" | [27] |
| 2021 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of how the brain controls movement. Using theoretical and experimental approaches he has elucidated the computational principles underlying skilled motor behaviour." | [28] |
| 2023 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "for greatly advancing the understanding of the physiological and psychological processes underlying memory." | [29] |
| 2025 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | "for her work in understanding the molecular basis of Huntington’s disease and consistently producing highly impactful findings which have moulded the course of this field." | [30] |
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