Patrick Michael Anthony Rabbitt#
| Membership Number: | 3520 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
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 reaction times
- Decision processes
- Decision error correction and detection
- Decision 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
- 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
