| Activity | Date of Birth: 8 November 1946
Date of Death: 12 February 2000
University & Professional Qualifications:
BSc Psychology, London University, 1966-1969
MSc Clinical Psychology, University of Birmingham, 1969-1971
D.Phil, University of Oxford, 1974
CPsychol, British Psychological Society (nd)
Professional Career:
Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, Southampton University 1974-1985
Part-time senior clinical psychologist, Coldeast Hospital, Fareham, Hampshire, 1978
Chair in Psychology at Stirling University 1985-1991
Professor of Psychology, Sussex University, 1991-2000
Honorary Professor, University of East London, 1996
Membership of professional and scientific organisations:
Secretary, BPS Developmental Psychology Section, 1979
Chair BPS Scientific Affairs Board 1992-1995
Fellow of the British Psychological Society (nd)
Founder the British Infancy Research Group and the Journal Developmental Science (nd)
Founder the European Society for Developmental Psychology
Member of the Association for Teaching Psychology
Member of the Society for Research in Child Development
Member of the International Society for Study of Behavioural Development
Awards:
Crothall Prize in Clinical Psychology, University of Birmingham, 1971
Awarded 3 year project grant by MRC to supervise a study of "Logical Competence in Infancy", 1975
Awarded project grant by SSRC: "Mechanism of Joint Visual attention in human infants"
Sources:
George Butterworth obituary: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/press_office/bulletin/25feb00/article7.html
Bryant, P. E. (2008). Bremner, G.; Slater, A.. eds. "Afterword: Tribute to George Butterworth" (PDF). Theories of Infant Development (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing): 355–361. doi:10.1002/9780470752180.after. ISBN 978-0-470-75218-0. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470752180.after/pdf.
Obituary: Professor George Butterworth, Harris, Paul, The Independent (London, England) February 26th 2000
George Butterworth: A Tribute , Scania D. Schonen and Sandy Jackson, Developmental Science (2000), 3:3, pp III-IV
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| PublishedWorks | Margaret Harris & George Butterworth Developmental Psychology A Student's Handbook published April 18th 2002 by Psychology Press
Butterworth, G. E. (1976). Object identity in infancy: The interaction of spatial location codes in determining search errors. Child Development, 46, 866–70.
Butterworth, G. E. (1977). Object disappearance and error in Piaget’s stage IV task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 23, 391–501.
Butterworth, G. E. (1998a). What is special about pointing? In F. Simio & G. Butterworth (Eds.), The development of sensory, motor and cognitive capacities in early infancy: From perception to cognition (pp. 171–90). Hove: Psychology Press.
Butterworth, G. E. (1998b). A developmental-ecological perspective on Strawson’s “the self.” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 5, 132– 40.
Butterworth, G. E. (2001). Joint visual attention in infancy. In G. Bremner & A. Fogel (Eds.), Blackwell handbook of infant development (pp. 213–40). Oxford: Blackwell. Reprinted as chapter 12 in this volume.
Butterworth, G. E., & Castillo, M. (1976). Coordination of auditory and visual space in newborn human infants. Perception, 5, 155–60.
Butterworth, G. E., & Cochran, E. (1980). Towards a mechanism of joint visual attention in human infancy. International Journal of Behavioural Development, 3, 253–72.
Butterworth, G. E., Franco, F., McKenzie, B., Graupner, L., & Todd, B. (2002). Dynamic aspects of visual event perception and the production of pointing by human infants. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20, 1–24.
Butterworth, G. E., & Grover, L. (1988). The origins of referential communication in human infancy. In L. Weiskrantz (Ed.), Thought without language (pp. 5–24). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Butterworth, G. E., & Hicks, L. (1977). Visual proprioception and postural stability in infancy: A developmental study. Perception, 6, 255–62.
Butterworth, G. E., & Hopkins, B. (1988). Hand–mouth coordination in the newborn baby. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6,303–14.
Butterworth, G. E., & Jarrett, N. (1991). What minds have in common is space: Spatial mechanisms serving joint visual attention in infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9, 55–72.
Butterworth, G. E., & Morissette, P. (1996). Onset of pointing and the acquisition of language in infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 14, 219–31.
Butterworth, G. E., Verweij, V., & Hopkins, B. (1997). The development of prehension in infants: Halverson revisited. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 223–6.
Hopkins, B., & Butterworth, G. E. (1990). Concepts of causality in explanations of development. In G. Butterworth & P. Bryant (Eds.), Causes of development: Interdisciplinary perspectives (pp. 3–32). Hove: Erlbaum.
Ingram, N., & Butterworth, G. E. (1989). The young child’s representation of depth in drawing. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 47, 356–69. Laing, E., Butterworth, G. E., Ansari, D., Gsödl, M., & Longhi, E. (2002).
Atypical development of language and social communication in toddlers with Williams syndrome. Developmental Science, 5, 233– 46.
Lew, A. R., & Butterworth, G. E. (1995). The effects of hunger on hand–mouth coordination in newborn infants. Developmental Psychology, 31, 456–63.
Lew, A. R., & Butterworth, G. E. (1997). The development of hand–mouth co-ordination in 2- to 5-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 20, 56–69.
Rakison, D. H., & Butterworth, G. E. (1998). Infants’ attention to object structure and its early categorisation. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1310–25.
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