Excellence Reporter: Prof. Baddeley, what is the meaning of life?

Alan Baddeley:

“I don’t think that life has a meaning,

though I’m very glad to be enjoying it while it lasts.”

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~Alan Baddeley is Professor of Psychology at the University of York, UK. He works on human memory and is best known for proposing with his colleague Graham Hitch, the concept of working memory. He continues to be active in research, having escaped retirement for the last 20 years. For more detail, see “Working Memories: Postmen, Divers and the Cognitive Revolution” (Routledge, 2019).

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