board members were: Allan Snyder Gavin Brown Peter Karmel Lachlan Murdoch Baz Luhrmann Distinguished Medal recipients: Daniel Dennett Horace Barlow Vilayanur Ramachandran Richard Branson Mission "We explore what it is to be uniquely human. We do this by investing in challenging research, by orchestrating spectacular intellectual events, and by acting as a global nexus for great minds. Our mind laboratories focus on scientific ways to enhance creativity and to instill the champion mindset." References External links University of Sydney Centre for the Mind What Makes a Champion? London Science Museum Marconi Foundation Is integer arithmetic fundamental to mental processing?: the mind's secret arithmetic. 1940 births Living people Harvard University alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Alumni of University College London Fellows of the Royal Society Australia Prize recipients Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Optical physicists