Patrick Michael Anthony Rabbitt#
| Email: | patrick.rabbitt 'at' psy.ox.ac.uk |
| Membership Number: | 3520 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Section: | BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES |
| Username: | prabbitt |
| Elected: | 2013 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 – present : Hon Research Associate Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
- 2004 – present : Hon Research Prof Department of Psychology, University of West Australia, Perth W.A.
- 2004 – present : Emeritus Prof of Cognitive Gerontology University of Manchester, UK
- 1984-2004: Research Chair in Cognitive Psychology and Gerontology, University of Manchester, UK
- 1984-2004: Director Age and Cognitive Performance Research Centre, University of Manchester. UK
- 1991-2004: Adjunct Chair in Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perh, W. Australia
- 1982-1983: Professor and Head of Department of Psychology, University of Durham.UK
- 1968-1982: Lecturer in Psychology, University of Oxford, U.K.
- 1968-1982: Fellow and Praelector in Psychology, The Queen’s College, Oxford, U.K.
- 1961-1968: Scientific Staff MRC Applied Psychology Research Unit, Cambridge, (also Seconded by UK Medical Research Council to National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Washington DC, USA for 1963-64)
Fields of Scholarship
- Cognitive ageing
- Longitudinal studies
- Intelligence; health
- Pathologies
- Demographics
- Memory
- Decisions
- Cognitive psychology: reaction times and decision processes; error correction and detection; intelligence
- Memory: working memory; autobiographical memory
- Neurophysiology of reaction times, intelligence and memory
- Ageing of the brain: white matter lesions; age associated loss of brain volume; hippocampal shrinkage
- Applied Research: recovery from anaesthesia; motor vehicle driving; elderly access to new technology
Honours and Awards
- 2006 Career achievement recognition award at Biennial International Cognitive Aging Conference
- 2001 Hon DSc University of Western Australia
- 1995 Hon. Fellow British Psychological Society
- 1996 Hon Member Experimental Psychology Society
- 1995 President, Experimental Psychology Society
- 1992 Bartlett Lecturer, Experimental Psychology Society
- 1989 Myers Lecturer British Psychological Society
