Jacques Paillard 

nominated for honorary membership

Jacques Paillard has been a pioneer in the foundation of Behavioural Neuroscience in France as a teacher and as the founding director, in 1965, of the CNRS Institute of Neurophysiology and Psychophysiology in Marseille. This Institute was a model for what was to become Cognitive Neuroscience, gathering under one roof researchers studying the brain from a cellular, systems, or higher integrative level of analysis. His own research has centred on sensory motor-integration and perception of body space, with several major contributions to the field. Now several years into his retirement, he continues an active research programme with Canadian colleagues, studying motor control in deafferented patients. 

Jacques Paillard is a founding member of the EBBS and the Local Organiser of the very first meeting, held in Marseille in 1969. He served as President of the Society from 1971-1972 and again headed the Local Organising Committee for the meeting in Marseille in 1983. Members will vote on this nomination at the AGM in Marseille in September.

Susan J. Sara  (Newsletter 2001)