On September 17, 2012, Noam Chomsky received a PhD honoris causa in Neuroscience from the hands of Guido Martinelli, the Director of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste. The ceremony started with a laudatio given by Jacques Mehler, cognitive scientist and professor at SISSA. Chomsky held a one-hour lectio magistralis, entitled "The minimalist program and language acquisition", where he summed up his theory.
