Alan Baddeley

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Alan Baddeley

Alan David Baddeley (born March 23, 1934 in Leeds ) is a British psychologist .

Life

Baddeley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from University College London in 1956 and received a Master of Science from Princeton University in 1957 . In 1958 he went to the Medical Research Council (MRC) in the Applied Psychology Unit (APU) at Cambridge University , where he received his doctorate in 1962 under Conrad.

In 1967 he went as a lecturer (later assistant professor) to the newly established Experimental Psychology Laboratory of the University of Sussex in Brighton . He received his first chair in psychology in 1972 at the University of Stirling in Scotland. In 1974 he followed David Broadbent as director of the APU, where he also taught at Cambridge University until 1995. From 1995 to 2003 he was Professor of Psychology at Bristol University and since 2003 has taught at York University .

He has received the British titles Commander (CBE) of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1999), Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) (1993) and Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) (2008). He is also a member of the Academia Europaea (1989) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996) and honorary doctorates from the University of Umeå (1991), the University of Stirling (1996), the University of Essex (1999), Plymouth University ( 2000) and the University of Edinburgh (2005).

Research contributions

He is best known for his working memory model , which, unlike previous models, consists of several components. In the original model , a central executive close to the attention system uses two memory memories, the phonological loop and the visual-spatial notepad . Today, a third subsystem is believed to be an episodic buffer from Baddeley.

Together with his wife Dr. Hilary Baddeley is researching Alzheimer's disease .

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SURNAME Baddeley, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baddeley, Alan David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds