He is an international authority on the frontal lobe mechanisms for decision making and executive control.
[3] In addition, he is Emeritus Honorary Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at University College London.
[4] His career has been spent at these two institutions, and from 1991 to 1995 also at the MRC Cyclotron Unit at the Hammersmith Hospital London.
Passingham has transformed our view of the frontal lobes by his work on the monkey and human brain.
Together with his later work using brain imaging in humans, he has changed our view of the fundamental role of the prefrontal cortex.