 | Professor Glyn Humphreys
Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University of Birmingham (S6) Visual cognition, including visual perception, attention and the relations between action and attention, with specialism in neuropsychological deficits
Glyn Humphreys is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Birmingham and Scientific Director of the Birmingham University Imaging Centre. Glyn gained his BSc and PhD in Psychology from the University of Bristol (1976 and 1979) and took up a Lectureship in Psychology at Birkbeck College in 1979. He went on to be appointed Chair of Psychology at Birkeck College in 1988 before moving to Birmingham in 1989 to establish a new cognitive science research centre. Glyn's research is concerned with the cognitive neuroscience of vision, attention and action. It uses a variety of methods, particularly neuropsychological studies of individuals with brain lesions but also functional brain imaging (fMRI, EEG/ERP), trans-cranial magnetic stimulation and computational modelling. Glyn has been awarded the British Psychological Society's Spearman Medal (1986), its Cognitive Psychology Prize and its President Award (both 1999). He has been awarded Fellowships of the Humboldt Foundation, the Association for Psychological Science, the Belgian Experimental Psychology Society, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Medicine. He has been President of the Experimental Psychology Society and a member of grant committees with the BBSRC, EPSRC, MRC, the Stroke Association and the Leverhulme Trust. Outside work Glyn is a keen swimmer, a poor guitar player, and a steadfastly loyal Bob Dylan fan. |
