Gina Rippon | |
|---|---|
 Rippon in 2016 | |
| Born | Georgina Mary Jane Rippon 1950 (age 74–75) |
| Nationality | British |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cognitive neuroimaging |
| Institutions | Aston University, Birmingham |
| Thesis | The orienting reflex in normal and in schizophrenic subjects (1982) |
| Website | Official website |
Gina Rippon (born 1950)[1] is a British neurobiologist and feminist. She is a professor emeritus of cognitive neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, Birmingham.[2] Rippon has also sat on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychophysiology.[3] In 2019, Rippon published her book, Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience that Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain, which investigates the role of life experiences and biology in brain development.[2][4]
- ^ Llewellyn Smith, Julia (17 December 2010). "Professor Gina Rippon: Fighting the 'neutrotrash industry'". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ a b Fox, Genevieve (24 February 2019). "Meet the neuroscientist shattering the myth of the gendered brain". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ Rippon, Gina; Senior, Carl (February 2007). "Editorial Board". International Journal of Psychophysiology. 63 (2). Elsevier: iii. doi:10.1016/S0167-8760(07)00006-2.
- ^ "Women's brains ARE built for science. Modern neuroscience explodes an old myth". CBC News.