Alan Baddeley

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Alan Baddeley FRS, CBE is professor of psychology at the University of York. He is known for his work on working memory, in particular for his multiple components model.

Education

Baddeley graduated from University College London in 1956 and obtained an MA from Princeton University's Department of Psychology in 1957, followed by a PhD from University of Cambridge in 1962.

Career

Notably, Baddeley (working with Graham Hitch) developed an influential model of working memory, Baddeley's model of working memory^[1], arguing for the existence of multiple short term memory stores, and a separate interacting system for manipulating the content of these stores. The model accounts for much of the empirical data on short-term retention and manipulation of information.
His landmark study in 1975 on 'Capacity of Short Term Memory'^[2] aimed to see whether people could remember more short words than long words in a recall test and so to show whether pronunciation time or number of items determines the capacity of short term memory.

Other notable works

Baddeley has also part authored a number of neuropsychological tests including the Doors and People, Children's Test of Nonword Repetition (CN REP), the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (RBMT), Autographical Memory Interview (AMI), Visual Patterns Test (VPT) and the Speed and Capacity of Language Processing Test (SCOLP).

See also

• Baddeley's model of working memory

External links

• Alan Baddeley's biography at the University of York

References

1. ^ Baddeley, A.D., Hitch, G.J.L (1974). Working Memory, In G.A. Bower (Ed.),
2. ^ Baddeley, A.D., Thompson, N., and Buchanan, M., 1975. "Word Length and the Structure of Memory", in Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, I , 575-589.

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