| Honors |
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| 1989 | Lambert Lecture, American Society for Neuroscience, Phoenix |
| 1990 | Brooks Lecture, Harvard |
| 1991 | Lamport Lecture, Seattle |
| 1993 | F.C. Donders Lectures on Cognitive Neuroscience, Nijmegen |
| 1996 | Hebb Lecture, Halifax |
| 1997 | NIH Presidential Lecture, Washington |
| 1999 | Macallum Lecture, Toronto |
| 1999 | Vernon B. Mountcastle Lecture, Baltimore |
| 2000 | Keynote lecture at the 300-year anniversary of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| 2000 | Keynote lecture "Perceiving, Remembering, Forgetting" at the Historikertag, Aachen |
| 2001 | TINS Lecture, Harrogate |
| 2001 | Otto von Guericke Lecture, Magdeburg |
| 2002 | Cajal Lecture, Madrid |
| 2002 | Servier Lecture, Montreal |
| 2002 | Swammerdam Lecture, Amsterdam |
| 2003 | "dies academicus", Ulm |
| 2004 | Talairach Lecture, Budapest |
| 2005 | CNBC Annual Special Lecture, Pittsburgh |
| 2005 | Festvortrag MPG Hauptversammlung Rostock |
| 2005 | Jakob-Burckhardt-Gespräche auf Castelen/Basel |
| 2006 | Karl von Frisch Lecture, Wien |
| 2008 | Commencement Speech, Rutgers University, New Jersey |
| 2009 | Leopoldina Lecture, Halle |
| 2010 | Goethe Institute Moscow, Lecture Series |
| 2011 | Höllerer Lecture |
| 2012 | New Year's Speech, Frankfurt Römer |
| 2013 | Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers, Frankfurt Römer |
| 2013 | Heller Lecture, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
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