Born: 1st August 1933, Nelson, Lancashire, England.
Education:
1957 BA, Cantab, Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II, Psychology.
1957 – 1960 D.S.I.R. studentship, Department of Psychology, Reading University.
1961 Ph.D. “Reading, Context and the Perception of Words”, Reading University.
Positions Held:
1960 – 1982 Member of Scientific Staff, MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge.
1982 – 1998 Director, MRC Cognitive Development Unit, London
1998 – current Honorary member, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, Professor of Psychology.
Other Positions:
Feb – Mar 1967 Research Fellow, Center for Research in Language and Language Behaviour, University of Michigan.
1967 – 1968 Research Associate and Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Yale University.
1974 – 1975 Visiting Scientist, Laboratoire de Psychologie, M.S.H., Paris 6e and Unite de Researches Neuropsycholiques et Neurolinguistiques, Hospital St. Anne, Paris.
1977 – 1980 Consultant, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Project Group for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
Nov 1978 Consultant, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
Feb 1980 Visiting Professor, Cornell University.
Jan – Feb 1981 Visiting Fellow, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerentology.
1993 – 1998 Chair, Scientific Committee, TECS, School of Advanced Sciences, Trieste, Italy.
1995 – 1998 Chair, Extended Faculty of the European Diploma in Cognitive Science, SISSA, School of Advanced Sciences, Trieste, Italy.
1984 – 1988 Chair, British Psychological Society Standing Press Committee.
1984 – 1990 Member, British Psychological Society Council.
1997 – 1998
1995 – 1997 Chair of the Working Party of the British Psychological Society on Recovered Memories.
1998 – 2000 President, Experimental Psychology Society.
Awards:
1974 Fellow, British Psychological Society.
1988 British Psychological Society President’s Award.
1990 Member, Academiae Europaeae.
1997 Honorary Fellow, British Psychological Society.
1998 OBE.
2000 Honorary Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
2001 Honorary Member, Experimental Psychology Society.
2001 Neuronal Plasticity Prize of La Fondation Ipsen.
2011 Fellow of the Royal Society.
2011 Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
2012 Honorary Fellow of University College, London.