Sarah-Jayne Blakemore FRS FBA FMedSci FRSB CPsychol (born 11 August 1974)[5] is Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge[6] and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme Neuroscience at University College London.

[5][1] She completed postgraduate study at University College London where she was awarded a PhD in 2000[3] for research co-supervised by Daniel Wolpert[4][12][13][14] and Chris Frith.

[15][16][17][18][19] After her PhD, she was appointed an international postdoctoral research fellow from 2001 to 2003 to work in Lyon, France, with Jean Decety on the perception of causality in the human brain.

[1] In March 2015 Blakemore was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific.

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