Brian Butterworth

Brian Butterworth is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology at University College London.

He taught at Cambridge University for eight years and has held visiting appointments at MIT and the Max Planck Institute at Nijmegen. He is crrently working on the neuroscience and the genetics of mathematical abilities and disabilities. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2002, and is the author of The Mathematical Brain, as well as of several academic books. He lives in London.