Anna Christina Nobre

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Kia Nobre
Nobre in 2022
Born	Anna Christina Nobre (1963-02-22) 22 February 1963 (age 61) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Education	Williams College Yale University
Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience
Institutions	Yale University Harvard University University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor	Gregory McCarthy

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Anna Christina Nobre FBA, MAE, fNASc (known as Kia Nobre;^[1] born 1963) is a Brazilian and British cognitive neuroscientist working at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.

Nobre is a Wu Tsai Professor at Yale University, where she directs the Center for Neurocognition and Behavior at the Wu Tsai Institute. She is an honorary member of the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford; an honorary fellow of New College, Oxford; and an adjunct professor at the Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Nobre's research contributions are widely recognized. She is a Fellow of the British Academy (elected 2015),^[2] a Member of the Academia Europaea (elected 2015),^[3] an international fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (elected 2020),^[4] and an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2024).^[5] She received the MRC Suffrage Science Award (2016), the Broadbent Prize from the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (2019), the Lifetime Mentor Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science,^[6] and the Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.^[7] Other markers of acclaim include elected membership to the International Neuropsychological Symposium and Memory Disorders Research Society, and fellowship of the American Psychological Society.