Alan Baddeley

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

Life

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

In 1967 he was a lecturer (later assistant professor ). At the newly built Experimental Psychology Laboratory at the University of Sussex in Brighton His first chair of psychology, he received in 1972 at the University of Stirling in Scotland. In 1974, he was followed by David Broadbent as Director of the APU, where he taught at the University of Cambridge also to 1995. From 1995 to 2003 he was then a professor of psychology at the University of Bristol, and since 2003 he has taught at the University of York.

He has received the British title Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE ) (1999 ) and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS ).

Research Contributions

He has become known for his working memory model, which unlike previous models composed of several components. One of the attention system related central executive uses in the original model of two notepad memory, phonological loop and the visual-spatial notepad. Today, an episodic buffer of Baddeley is assumed as the third subsystem.

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

Writings

• With Graham Hitch: Working memory. In: Psychology of Learning and Motivation. Vol 8, ISSN 0079-7421, pp. 47-90, doi: 10.1016/S0079-7421 (08) 60452-1.
• The psychology of memory. Basic Books, New York, NY 1976, ISBN 0-465-06736-0. The psychology of memory. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-920531-4.