Fyssen Foundation

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)