2011

Professor Glyn Humphreys was a Fellow of Wolfson College and held the Watts Chair of Experimental Psychology. He was a transformative Head of Department and a world-leading authority in cognitive neuropsychology. He died suddenly in January 2016 while in Hong Kong as a Distinguished Visiting Professor.

Professor Humphreys’ research interests covered a broad range of topics, including cognitive problems after brain injury, attention, perception and language. His work contributed to the study of a wide range of neuropsychological disorders and included the development of new clinical screening instruments for detecting cognitive problems after brain injury, an area which has since been built upon by other members of the Department. Professor Humphreys also edited the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Visual Cognition and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Among numerous awards and honours, he received the British Psychological Society Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the field of psychology, and was honoured internationally as a special professor at the University of Leipzig and the University of Peking and at the National Academy of Sciences in China.