Academic roles

This international conference attracted 24 contributed talks and three keynote lectures by researchers from 10 different countries. The conference covered topics of cognitive development, language processing, high-level cognition, face processing, learning, and philosophy and methodology. The resulting book is published by WorldScientific .

The main motivation for this workshop was the change in perspective among memory theorists that there is a need to fully integrate the two types of memory paradigms in current theorising.
Six researchers (Dr Phil Beaman, University of Reading; Professor Gordon Brown, University of Warwick; Dr Davelaar; Dr Simon Farrell, University of Bristol; Professor Dr Jeroen Raaijmakers, University of Amsterdam; and Professor Geoff Ward, University of Essex) discussed new theoretical models and empirical data. The Workshop was attended by researchers from Birkbeck and University College London.
One attendee had the following impression: 'The Memory Workshop was an informal gathering of many of the UK's foremost researchers in the field of working memory. Bringing together a broad range of theoretical standpoints, the meeting provided a forum for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research, drawing on experimental, modelling, and neuropsychological approaches. Setting aside the healthy debate about whether separable short-term memory buffers exist, the clear consensus was that these kind of meetings just don't happen often enough: informal workshops create fantastic opportunities for exchanging and synthesising new ideas by promoting spontaneous discussion, in a way that simply is not possible with the more rigid constraints of the conference format.'

Co-organiser Birkbeck Affective Cognitive Science Symposium "Dynamics of information processing: choice, attention, emotion" (30 June 2006)
Local organiser for international study trip for students from the Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam (CSCA) 22-23 October 2009