| Activity | Date of Birth: 14/03/1950
Place of Birth: Jarrow, England
University & Professional Qualifications:
BSc Hons. Psychology, University of London (Bedford College), 1971
PhD, University of Warwick, 1974
BPS Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol), 1988-date
DSc, University of London, 1990
Docteur Honoris Causa, University of Liège, 2000
Professional Career:
Lecturer in Psychology, University of Aberdeen, 1974-1976
Lecturer, then Reader in Psychology, University of Lancaster, 1976-1989
Professor of Psychology, University of Durham, 1989-1993
Special Appointment, Non-Clinical Scientific Staff, Medical
Research Council, Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, 1993-1997
Professor of Neuropsychology, University of York, 1997-date.
Honours and Awards:
British Psychological Society, Lifetime Achievement for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge, 2014
Honorary Fellow, British Psychological Society, 2005
Fellow of British Psychological Society (FBPsS), 1988
Cognitive Psychology Award, from the British Psychological Society (for
A.W. Young, F. Newcombe, E.H.F. de Haan, M. Small and D.C. Hay. Face
perception after brain injury: selective impairments affecting identity and
expression. Brain, 1993, 116, 941-959), 1994
Presidents' Award, from the British Psychological Society (for distinguished
contributions to psychological knowledge), 1995
Book Award, from the British Psychological Society (for V. Bruce and A.W.
Young. In the eye of the beholder: the science of face perception. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1998), 2001
Fellow of British Academy (FBA), 2001
Academician, Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS), 2004
Cognitive Psychology Award, from the British Psychological Society (for A.J.
Calder and A.W. Young. Understanding the recognition of facial identity and facial
expression. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2005, 6, 641-651), 2007
Entry in ISIHighlyCited.com (A0117-2006-E) as one of the 250 most-cited
scientists in Psychology and Psychiatry across the 20-year period 1986-2005.
2011 Special issue of British Journal of Psychology (guest editors S. R.
Schweinberger and A.M. Burton) – .Person perception 25 years after Bruce and
Young (1986)'. British Journal of Psychology, 2011, 102, 695-974.
Involvement with BPS and other institutions:
British Psychological Society:
Associate Fellow, 1986-1988;
Fellow, 1988-2004;
Honorary Fellow 2005-date
Life Member from 1995 (Presidents' Award)
Member, BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Committee, 1986-1992
Member, BPS Fellowships Committee, 1989-1993
Member, BPS Council, 1994-1997
Member, BPS Scientific Affairs Board, 1996-1999
Member, BPS Presidents' Award Committee, 1996-1999
Deputy Chair (Research), BPS Division for Teachers and Researchers in Psychology,
1997-1999
Other Institutions:
European Society for Cognitive Psychology:
Member, 1986-1995
Experimental Psychology Society:
Member, 1981-date
EPS Hon. Secretary, 1989-1993
Member, EPS Committee, 1993-1994
President-Elect, 2003
President, 2004-2005
International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance:
Member, Advisory Council, 1999-date
International Neuropsychological Symposium:
Member, 1988-1994
President of Psychology Section, British Association for the Advancement of
Science, 1997-1998.
Chair (President), British Neuropsychological Society, 1998-2000
Co-organiser (with Professor Vicki Bruce, University of Stirling, and James
Holloway, Keeper, Scottish National Portrait Gallery) of an exhibition on 'The
Science of the Face', March-August 1998, Scottish National Portrait Gallery,
Edinburgh.
Co-organiser (with Professor Vicki Bruce and Dr. Peter Hancock, University of
Stirling) of revised 'Science of the Face' exhibition with several new panels and
pictures, June-July 1999, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Marathon debut of under 5 hours in 2006 Flora London Marathon, raising over
£5,000 in sponsorship for the Stroke Association.
Association of Heads of Psychology Departments:
Ex officio member, 1989-1993; MRC APU representative, 1993-1997; ex officio member,
2001-2005.
Sources: A Young's CV.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| PublishedWorks | Published work:
Twenty significant publications:
Bruce, V. and Young, A.W. (1986). Understanding face recognition. British Journal of Psychology, 77, 305-327.
The most widely cited theoretical paper on face recognition (>1,250 WoS citations).
De Haan, E.H.F., Young, A.W. and Newcombe, F. (1987). Face recognition without awareness. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 4, 385-415.
Established behavioural methods for investigating covert face recognition in prosopagnosia
(>150 WoS citations).
McWeeny, K.H., Young, A.W., Hay, D.C. and Ellis, A.W. (1987). Putting names to faces. British Journal of Psychology, 78, 143-149.
Demonstrated that our problems in remembering names are due to the way we learn them, not properties of the items themselves. Now known as the Baker baker effect (>90 WoS citations).
Young, A.W., Hellawell, D. and Hay, D.C. (1987). Configurational information in face perception. Perception, 16, 747-759.
Direct demonstration of the importance of holistic processing in face recognition. Now a widely adopted paradigm, known as the composite effect (>400 WoS citations).
Ellis, A.W. and Young, A.W. (1988). Human cognitive neuropsychology. Hove, East Sussex: Lawrence Erlbaum (358pp).
For many years the most widely used textbook on cognitive neuropsychology (>1,000 citations of original and 1996 revised edition).
Ellis, H.D. and Young, A.W. (1990). Accounting for delusional misidentifications. British Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 239-248.
Extended the functional modelling approach to a new area. One of the first papers on 'cognitive neuropsychiatry' (>180 WoS citations).
Burton, A.M., Young, A.W., Bruce, V., Johnston, R. and Ellis, A.W. (1991). Understanding covert recognition. Cognition, 39, 129-166.
First implemented account of covert face recognition in prosopagnosia (>90 WoS citations).
Young, A.W., Newcombe, F., de Haan, E.H.F., Small, M. and Hay, D.C. (1993). Face perception after brain injury: selective impairments affecting identity and expression. Brain, 116, 941-959.
Pioneered the case series approach and established stringent criteria for double dissociations in a neuropsychological case series (>150 WoS citations). Given the BPS's 1994 Cognitive Psychology Award.
Morris, J.S., Frith, C.D., Perrett, D.I., Rowland, D., Young, A.W., Calder, A.J. and Dolan, R.J. (1996). A differential neural response in the human amygdala to fearful and happy facial expressions. Nature, 383, 812-815.
One of the first functional brain imaging studies of fear recognition (>950 WoS citations).
Sprengelmeyer, R., Young, A.W., Calder, A.J., Karnat, A., Lange, H., Hömberg, V., Perrett, D.I. and Rowland, D. (1996). Loss of disgust: perception of faces and emotions in Huntington's disease. Brain, 119, 1647-1665.
First indication of a dissociable impairment of disgust recognition (>220 WoS citations).
Ellis, H.D., Young, A.W., Quayle, A.H. and de Pauw, K.W. (1997). Reduced autonomic responses to faces in Capgras delusion. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, B264, 1085-1092.
Demonstrated the absence of SCRs to familiar faces predicted by Ellis and Young's (1990)
theoretical account of Capgras delusion (>60 WoS citations). This finding was not predicted by any other extant theory.
Phillips, M.L., Young, A.W., Senior, C., Brammer, M., Andrew, C., Calder, A.J., Bullmore, E.T., Perrett,
D.I., Rowland, D., Williams, S.C.R., Gray, J.A. and David, A.S. (1997). A specific neural
substrate for perceiving facial expressions of disgust. Nature, 389, 495-498.
First functional brain imaging study of disgust recognition (>700 WoS citations).
Scott, S.K., Young, A.W., Calder, A.J., Hellawell, D.J., Aggleton, J.P. and Johnson, M. (1997). Impaired
auditory recognition of fear and anger following bilateral amygdala lesions. Nature, 385, 254-
257.
Evidence of multimodal involvement of the amygdala in emotion recognition (>280 WoS
citations).
Bruce, V. and Young, A.W. (1998). In the eye of the beholder: the science of face perception. Oxford: Oxford University Press (280 pp).
Introduction to face perception for a general audience, based on a science and art exhibition
held at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (>150 citations). This book was given the BPS's 2001 Book Award.
Young, A.W. and Burton, A.M. (1999). Simulating face recognition: implications for modelling cognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 1-48.
The most complete account of covert recognition in prosopagnosia (>50 WoS citations).
Calder, A.J., Keane, J., Manes, F., Antoun, N. and Young, A.W. (2000). Impaired recognition and experience of disgust following brain injury. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 1077-1078.
Demonstrated multimodal problems with disgust in a person with a lesion in the brain region
identified as crucial to disgust recognition from Philips et al.'s (1997) study (>240 WoS citations).
Calder, A.J., Lawrence, A.D. and Young, A.W. (2001). Neuropsychology of fear and loathing. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2, 352-363.
Integrated theoretical perspective on selective impairments of recognition of fear and disgust (>340 WoS citations).
Keane, J., Calder, A.J., Hodges, J.R. and Young, A.W. (2002). Face and emotion processing in frontal variant frontotemporal dementia. Neuropsychologia, 40, 655-665.
Strong evidence of a neuropsychological dissociation between impairments of identity and
expression recognition (>80 WoS citations).
Calder, A.J. and Young, A.W. (2005). Understanding the recognition of facial identity and facial expression. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6, 641-651.
New theoretical perspective on identity and expression recognition (>180 WoS citations). Given the BPS's 2007 Cognitive Psychology Award.
Hagan, C.C., Woods, W., Johnson, S., Calder, A.J., Green, G.G.R. and Young, A.W. (2009). MEG demonstrates a supra-additive response to facial and vocal emotion in right superior temporal sulcus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 106, 20010-20015.
Used MEG to demonstrate the multimodal involvement of STS in emotion recognition predicted by Calder and Young (2005).
The above list (abridged) taken from Professor Andrew Young's CV.
A full list of Professor Andrew Young's publications (up to 2011) is available upon request. |