Alan Baddeley

Prof. Alan Baddeley

Professor

• Psychology

Education

Cockburn High School, Leeds 1945-53

University College London 1956 B.A. (Hons) II.I Psychology

Princeton University 1957 M.A

Cambridge University 1962 Ph.D

Honours

1993 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

1996 Elected Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1999 Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for contributions to the study of memory.

1999 Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

2000 Founding Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

2001 APA Award for Distinguished Contribution to Science.

2008 Elected Fellow of the British Academy.



Six Honorary Doctorates

Appointments

1958-1967 Scientific Staff of MRC, MRC Applied Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge

1967-1972 Lecturer (later Reader), University of Sussex, Brighton, Sussex

1972-1974 Professor of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland

1974-1995 Director, MRC Applied Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF

1987-1995 Senior Research Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge

1991-1995 Honorary Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University of Cambridge

1995-2003 Professor of Psychology, University of Bristol

2003- Professor of Psychology, University of York

Research output

Guazzo, F, Allen, RJ, Baddeley, A & Della Sala, S 2020, 'Unimodal and Crossmodal working memory binding is not differentially affected by age or Alzheimer's disease', Neuropsychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000622

Stamate, A, Logie, RH, Baddeley, A & Della Sala, S 2020, 'Forgetting in Alzheimer's Disease: Is it fast? Is it affected by repeated retrieval?', Neuropsychologia, vol. 138, 107351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107351

Hitch, GJ, Allen, RJ & Baddeley, AD 2019, 'Attention and binding in visual working memory: two forms of attention and two kinds of buffer storage', Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01837-x

Allen, RJ, Kemp, S, Morson, S, Wells, C, Sissons, K & Baddeley, AD 2019, 'Does telephone testing of long-term memory retention and forgetting influence performance in young and older adults? An examination using the Crimes Test.', The Neuropsychologist. <https://shop.bps.org.uk/publications/publication-by-series/the-neuropsychologist.html>

Baddeley, AD, Hitch, GJ & Allen, R 2019, 'From short-term store to multicomponent working memory: the role of the modal model', Memory & Cognition , vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 575–588. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0878-5

Mattys, S & Baddeley, AD 2019, 'Working Memory and Second‐Language Accent Acquisition', Applied Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3554

Baddeley, AD 2019, 'When and where is cognitive psychology useful? The case of working memory', Psychology in Practice, no. 2, pp. 6-11.

Baddeley, AD 2019, 'Working memory: How it all began', Psychology Review, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 2-5.

Evans, K & Baddeley, AD 2018, 'Intention, Attention and Long-term Memory for Visual Scenes: It all depends on the scenes', Cognition, vol. 180, pp. 24-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.06.022

Covre, P, Baddeley, AD, Hitch, GJ & Bueno, OFA 2018, 'Maintaining task set against distraction: The role of working memory in multitasking.', Psychology & Neuroscience.

Atkinson, AL, Berry, EDJ, Waterman, AH, Baddeley, AD, Hitch, GJ & Allen, RJ 2018, 'Are there multiple ways to direct attention in working memory?', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13634

Hitch, GJ, Hu, Y, Allen, RJ & Baddeley, AD 2018, 'Competition for the focus of attention in visual working memory: perceptual recency versus executive control', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13631

Baddeley, AD, Allen, R, Atkinson, A & Kemp, S 2018, 'The problem of detecting long-term forgetting: Evidence from the Crimes Test and the Four Doors Test', Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.01.017

Allen, RJ, Hitch, GJ & Baddeley, AD 2018, 'Exploring the sentence advantage in working memory: Insights from serial recall and recognition', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021817746929

Baddeley, AD 2018, Exploring Working Memory: Selected works of Alan Baddeley. World Library of Psychologists, Routledge, London.

Berry, E, Waterman, A, Baddeley, AD, Hitch, GJ & Allen, R 2018, 'The limits of visual working memory in children: exploring prioritization and recency effects with sequential presentation', Developmental Psychology, vol. 54, pp. 240-253. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000427

Mattys, S, Baddeley, AD & Trenkic, D 2017, 'Is the superior verbal memory span of Mandarin speakers due to faster rehearsal?', Memory & Cognition , vol. 46, pp. 361-369. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-017-0770-8

Baddeley, AD, Hitch, GJ & Quinlan, PT 2017, 'Is the phonological similarity effect in working memory due to proactive interference?', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Allen, RJ, Baddeley, AD & Hitch, GJ 2017, 'Executive and perceptual distraction in visual working memory', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 43, no. 9, pp. 1677-1693. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000413

Atkinson, A, Baddeley, AD & Allen, RJ 2017, 'Remember some or remember all? Ageing and strategy effects in visual working memory', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1341537

Baddeley, AD 2017, 'Modularity, working memory and language acquisition', Second Language Research, vol. 33, pp. 299-311. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658317709852

Baddeley, AD & Hitch, GJ 2017, 'Is the Levels of Processing effect language-limited?', Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 92, pp. 1-13.

Hu, Y, Allen, RJ, Baddeley, AD & Hitch, GJ 2016, 'Executive control of stimulus-driven and goal-directed attention in visual working memory', Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 78, no. 7, pp. 2164-2175.

Baddeley, AD, Hitch, GJ, Quinlan, PT, Bowes, L & Stone, R 2015, 'Doors for memory: A searchable database', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 69, no. 11, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1087582

Pinheiro, E, Barbosa, T, Miranda, M, Baddeley, A, Navas, A & Bueno, O 2015, 'Adaptation of the word subtest of the Reading Decision Test (RDT) for Brazilian Portuguese', Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 31-40. https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-7153.201528104

Allen, RJ, Castellà-Mate, J, Ueno, T, Hitch, GJ & Baddeley, A 2015, 'What does visual suffix interference tell us about spatial location in working memory?', Memory & Cognition , vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 133-142. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-014-0448-4

Campoy, G, Castellà, J, Provencio, V, Hitch, GJ & Baddeley, AD 2015, 'Automatic semantic encoding in verbal short-term memory: Evidence from the concreteness effect', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 759-778. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.966248

Hu, Y, Hitch, GJ, Baddeley, AD, Zhang, M & Allen, RJ 2014, 'Executive and Perceptual Attention Play Different Roles in Visual Working Memory: Evidence From Suffix and Strategy Effects', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 1665-1678. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037163

Allen, RJ, Vargha-Khadem, F & Baddeley, AD 2014, 'Item-location binding in working memory: Is it hippocampus-dependent?', Neuropsychologia, vol. 59, pp. 74-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.04.013

Allen, RJ, Baddeley, AD & Hitch, GJ 2014, 'Evidence for Two Attentional Components in Visual Working Memory', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1499-1509. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000002

Baddeley, A, Rawlings, B & Hayes, A 2014, 'Constrained prose recall and the assessment of long-term forgetting: The case of ageing and the Crimes Test', Memory, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 1052-1059. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2013.865753

Vredeveldt, A, Baddeley, AD & Hitch, GJ 2014, 'The effectiveness of eye-closure in repeated interviews.', Legal and criminological psychology, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 282–295. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12013

Prendergast, G, Limbrick-Oldfield, E, Ingamells, E, Gathercole, S, Baddeley, A & Green, GGR 2013, 'Differential patterns of prefrontal MEG activation during verbal & visual encoding and retrieval', PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 12, e82936. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082936

Baddeley, A 2013, 'On applying cognitive psychology', British journal of psychology, vol. 104, no. 4, pp. 443-456. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12049

Saeki, E, Baddeley, AD, Hitch, GJ & Saito, S 2013, 'Breaking a habit: the role of the phonological loop in action control.', Memory & Cognition , vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 1065-1078. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-013-0320-y

Rao, VK & Baddeley, A 2013, 'Raven’s matrices and working memory: a dual task approach.', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 1881-1887. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2013.828314

Hurlstone, MJ, Hitch, GJ & Baddeley, AD 2013, 'Memory for Serial Order Across Domains: An Overview of the Literature and Directions for Future Research', Psychological Bulletin, vol. 140, no. 2, pp. 339-373. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034221

Baddeley, AD 2013, 'Working memory and emotion: Ruminations on a theory of depression', Review of General Psychology, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 20-27. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030029

Allen, RJ, Hitch, GJ, Mate, J & Baddeley, A 2012, 'Feature binding and attention in working memory: A resolution of previous contradictory findings', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 1, no. 12, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2012.687384

Rossi-Arnaud, C, Pieroni, L, Spataro, P & Baddeley, A 2012, 'Working memory and individual differences in the encoding of vertical, horizontal and diagonal symmetry', Acta psychologica, vol. 141, no. 1, pp. 122-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.06.007

Hofmann, W, Schmeichel, BJ & Baddeley, AD 2012, 'Executive functions and self-regulation', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 174-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.01.006

Baddeley, A, Banse, R, Huang, Y-M & Page, M 2012, 'Working memory and emotion: detecting the hedonic detector', Journal of Cognitive Psychology, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 6-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2011.613820

Baddeley, A 2012, 'Working Memory: Theories, Models, and Controversies', Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 63, pp. 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100422

Kemp, S, Illman, N, Moulin, CJA & Baddeley, A 2012, 'Accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF) and transient epileptic amnesia (TEA): Two cases of epilepsy-related memory disorder', Epilepsy & behavior, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 382-388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2012.04.119

Vredeveldt, A, Baddeley, A & Hitch, GJ 2012, 'The effects of eye-closure and "ear-closure" on recall of visual and auditory aspects of a criminal event', Europe's Journal of Psychology, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 284-299. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v8i2.472

Books

A total of 11; most recent



Baddeley, A. D., Eysenck, M., & Anderson, M. C. (2009). Memory. Hove: Psychology Press.

Baddeley, AD. (2007). Working memory, thought and action. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Received BPS book award.