Janette Atkinson#
| Membership Number: | 2582 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/vdu/abc/about.html http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/dev-sci/people/devsci-staff/j_atkinson |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1993- Professor of Psychology and MRC ESS Special Appointment, UCL
- 1983-1993 MRC External Scientific Staff, Dept of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge
- 1972-1983 Senior Research Associate, Dept of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge
- 1972 Research Associate, Dept Psychology, Johns Hopkins
- 1971-1972 Research Associate, Inst. Behavioral Genetics, Colorado
Fields of Scholarship
- Developmental visual neuroscience
- Models of normal and abnormal development of human vision
- Nuropsychology of visuocognitive and spatial problems in children
- Williams Syndrome
- Visual development in term/premature 'high risk' infants
- Visual seculae of prematurity
- Neonatal structural MRI/fMRI
- Infant vision screening
- Development of visual attention and executive function
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Young Inventor's Award, Medical Research Council: Cambridge Crowding Cards, Clement Clarke International Ltd.
- 1992 Distinguished Speaker Series, School of Optometry, Ohio State University
- 2002 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK
- 2008 Elected Member of Academia Europaea
- 2009 Kurt Koffka medal, University of Giessen (with Ol Braddick)
- 2016 Davida Teller Award from the Vision Sciences Society
