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The aim of Fyssen Foundation is to "encourage all forms of scientific inquiry into cognitive mechanisms, including thought and reasoning, which underlie animal and human behaviour ; their biological and cultural bases, and phylogenetic and ontogenetic development".
The award an International Prize annually to a scientist conducting distinguished research in the areas supported by the Foundation such as ethology, paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, psychology, epistemology, logic and the neurosciences.
Recipients of previous awards are:
- André Leroi-Gourhan (1980),
- William H. Thorpe (1981),
- Vernon B. Mountcastle (1982),
- Harold C. Conklin (1983),
- Roger W. Brown (1984),
- Pierre Buser (1985),
- David Pilbeam (1986),
- David Premack (1987),
- Jean-Claude Gardin (1988),
- Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic (1989),
- Jack Goody (1990)
- George A. Miller (1991),
- Pasko Rakic (1992),
- L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1993),
- Lila R. Gleitman (1994),
- William D. Hamilton (1995),
- Colin Renfrew (1996),
- Michel Jouvet (1997),
- Alan Walker (1998),
- Brent Berlin (1999),
- Joaquin Fuster (2000),
- Peter Marler (2001),
- Philip Johnson-Laird (2002),
- Michael I. Posner (2003),
- Michael Tomasello (2004)
- Joseph Ledoux (2005)