Glyn W. Humphreys

Glyn W. Humphreys (28 December 1954 – 14 January 2016) was a British cognitive neuropsychologist and academic. He was the Watts Professor of Experimental Psychology and principal investigator for the CNN Lab at Oxford University. He had previously worked at the University of Birmingham in the School of Psychology, where he held an honorary professorship of Cognitive Psychology. He died on 14 January 2016.

Early life Glyn Humphreys was born on 28 December 1954 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, the son of Glyn Humphreys Sr, a lecturer in building project management at Liverpool University, and Dorothy (née Cross). He was educated at Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby followed by the University of Bristol where he gained both his bachelor's degree in 1976 and PhD in 1980.

Honours and awards Humphreys held the Spearman Medal and Presidents' Award from the British Psychological Society, as well as the society's Cognitive Psychology Prize in 1998 and 2012. He was awarded the Donald Broadbent Prize for cognitive psychology research from the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (2012). He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Humboldt Foundation and the British Academy. He was awarded an Honorary Life Fellowship of the Belgian Association for Psychological Science in 2002 and the British Psychological Society in 2012.

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