Face Recognition: Familiarity, idiosyncrasy and representation.
Professor Mike Burton, University of York
University of Dundee, July 2025
The development, hemispheric organization, and plasticity of high-level vision.
Professor Marlene Behrmann, University of Pittsburgh
University of York, July 2024
Working Memory: Blending theory and application.
Professor Robert Logie, University of Edinburgh
University College London, January 2023
Visual duplicity: How (and why) our brain allows us to grasp the world without perceiving it.
Professor Melvyn Goodale, University of Western Ontario, Canada
University of Stirling, July 2022
Consciousness, (meta)Cognition, Culture.
Professor Chris Frith, University College London
EPS Online, January 2022
The ontogenetic origin of the capacity for logically structured thought: A case study of the
logical connectives or, not, and possible.
Professor Susan Carey, Harvard University, USA
Bournemouth University, July 2020
The psychology of experimental psychologists: Overcoming cognitive constraints to improve research.
Professor Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford
Bournemouth University, July 2019
Control of task-set.
Professor Stephen Monsell, University of Exeter
University College London, January 2018
Faces, people and the brain.
Professor Andy Young, University of York
University College London, January 2017
Orthographic processing and reading.
Professor Jonathan Grainger, CNRS & Aix-Marseille University
University of Oxford, July 2016
From perception to conception: How the brain processes meaningful concepts.
Professor Lorraine Tyler, University of Cambridge
University College London, January 2015
The point of no return.
Professor Gordon D Logan, Vanderbilt University
University College London, January 2014
The different worlds in which we live.
Professor John Mollon, University of Cambridge
University College London, January 2013
Challenging the use of adult neuropsychological models for explaining neurodevelopmental disorders: Developed versus developing brains.
Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Birkbeck University of London
University of Bristol, July 2012
The specificity of processing in prefrontal cortex: From reaction times to problem-solving.
Professor Tim Shallice, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)
University College London, January 2011
Why we need cognitive explanations of autism.
Professor Uta Frith, University College London
University College London, January 2010
Collaboration and communication in children and chimpanzees.
Professor Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
University College London, January 2009
An associative analysis of spatial learning.
Professor John Pearce, Cardiff University
University of Liverpool, July 2008
Attention and eye movements in reading, scene perception, and visual search.
Professor K Rayner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
University of Edinburgh, July 2007
Levels of processing speech.
Professor A Cutler, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands
University of Birmingham, April 2006
Professor M Coltheart, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
University of Essex, April 2005
Awesome allies in the study of language and its disorders.
Dr Karalyn Patterson, MRC-CBU, Cambridge
University of Oxford, March 2004
The hippocampal complex as a memory module: Implications for research and theory on recent and remote memory.
Professor Morris Moscovitch, University of Toronto
University of Reading, July 2003
Professor Alan Cowey, University of Oxford
Cambridge University, July 2002
Semantic memory: A parallel distributed processing approach.
Professor James L McClelland, Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, USA
University of Manchester Medical School, July 2001
Professor Anthony Dickinson, University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge, July 2000
When recollection fails: Memory dissociations.
Professor L L Jacoby, McMaster University
Durham University, July 1999
Truths from illusions.
Professor Richard Gregory, University of Bristol.
University of Cambridge, April 1998
Representations for action: Neural coding and cognitive structure.
Professor M Jeannerod, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Bron, France
University of Oxford, March 1997
Perception and memory: The inferotemporal cortex revisited.
Professor S E Iversen, University of Oxford
University of Cambridge, July 1996
When parts are larger than wholes: Violation of monotonicity in judgements and decisions.
Professor D Kahneman, Princeton University, USA
University of Birmingham, July 1995
Categorisation by people and by pigeons.
Professor N J Mackintosh, University of Cambridge
University of Oxford, March 1994
Memory Processes and memory systems.
Professor E Tulving, University of Toronto, Canada
University of Toronto, Canada, July 1993
Mental representation in unilateral neglect and related disorders.
Professor E Bisiach, University of Padua, Italy
University of Oxford, April 1992
Does it all go together when it goes?
Professor P M A Rabbitt, University of Manchester
University College London, January 1991
Associative structures in instrumental learning.
Professor R Rescorla, University of Pennsylvania, USA
University of Oxford, July 1990
New models of the mind.
Professor H Christopher Longuet‑Higgins, FRS, University of Sussex
University of Cambridge, July 1989
Theoretical and experimental approaches to motor control.
Professor Emilio Bizzi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
University of Edinburgh, July 1988.
Working memory: a pragmatic approach to theory.
Dr Alan Baddeley, MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge
University of Oxford, July 1987
Features and objects.
Professor Anne Treisman, University of California, USA
University College London, January 1987
A neural hierarchy of memory: recognition, recency and recall.
Professor M Mishkin, National Institute of Mental Health, USA
University College London, January 1985
The role of single neural units in the psychology of perception.
Professor H B Barlow, FRS, University of Cambridge
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 1984
Thoughts on the cerebral organization of memory.
Professor B Milner, FRS, University of Montreal, Canada
University of Oxford, July 1983
Simulators and realism.
Group Captain T C D Whiteside, Anthromec Consultancy
University of Cambridge, March 1982
Thinking as a skill.
Professor P N Johnson‑Laird, University of Sussex
University of Oxford, July 1981
Varieties of residual experience.
Professor L Weiskrantz, University of Oxford
University College London, January 1980
Orienting of attention.
Professor M I Posner, University of Oregon, USA
University of Oxford, July 1979
Levels, hierarchies, and the locus of control.
Dr D E Broadbent, FRS, University of Oxford
Brunswick Square, London, January 1977
How people understand and recall stories.
Professor G H Bower, Stanford University, USA
University of Durham, April 1976
Memory scanning: new findings and current controversies.
Dr Saul Sternberg, Bell Telephone Laboratories, USA
University College London, January 1973
Remembering revisited.
Professor O L Zangwill, University of Cambridge
Downing Street, Cambridge, July 1971
The control of movement patterns in animals.
Professor R A Hinde, University of Cambridge
University College London, January 1969
Things, words and the brain.
Professor R C Oldfield, University of Oxford
University of Cambridge, July 1966