Graham Hitch

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Graham Hitch
Born
Graham James Hitch
EducationUniversity of Cambridge (PhD)
Known forWorking memory
Scientific career
FieldsMemory
Cognitive psychology[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of York
University of Sussex
University of Manchester
Lancaster University
University of Stirling
ThesisOrganisation and retrieval in immediate memory (1972)
Websitewww.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academicstaff/gjh3/

Graham James Hitch is an English psychologist. He is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of York, best known for his work with Alan Baddeley in developing a Working Memory Model.[2][3]

Education

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He gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge, before gaining a Master of Science degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Sussex.[citation needed] He then returned to Cambridge to complete his PhD in 1972.[4]

Career and research

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He has worked as a research fellow at the University of Sussex (1971–1972) and the University of Stirling (1972–1974), and as a scientist on the Medical Research Council of the Applied Psychology Unit based in Cambridge (1974–1979). He has more recently been employed as a lecturer at the University of Manchester (1979–1990), and as a professor at the University of Lancaster (1991–2000), before moving to the University of York in 2000.

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The Working Memory Model (Baddeley and Hitch, 1974, revised 2000)

References

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