keynote spEakers
Professor Robert Logie
Former Professor at University of Edinburgh, UK
Robert Logie obtained his PhD in 1981 from University College London, and 1980-1986 was postdoc at MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge. From 1987 he was at University of Aberdeen becoming Anderson Professor and Head of Psychology, and 1996-2006 was adjunct Professor of Cognitive Psychology at University of Bergen, Norway. From 2004 he was Professor of Human Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh. He retired in 2023 and remains active in research.
His research includes working memory in the healthy, ageing, and damaged brain, and design of digital memory systems and of patient monitoring in ICU.
He has over 300 publications, in 2015 was chair ERC Advanced Grants panel SH4, and first non North-American Chair of the Psychonomic Society. He was awarded 2023 Bartlett prize for lifetime contributions to Experimental Psychology, is Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh, and British Psychological Society, and honorary lifetime member of European Society for Cognitive Psychology
Professor Amanda Waterman
University of Leeds, UK
Amanda Waterman obtained her PhD in 2000 from the University of Sheffield and is currently Professor of Cognitive Development at the University of Leeds. Waterman’s research predominantly focuses on working memory development with a particular interest in how we can support children with memory difficulties in the classroom. She regularly works alongside education practitioners in her research, including co-producing guidance for classroom teachers. More recently, Waterman has been interested in how cognitive offloading can be explored within a working memory paradigm. She is also the Academic Lead for Cognitive Research in the Born in Bradford Study, which is following the lives of over 13,500 children and their families and is one of the largest cohort studies of its type in the world. Waterman sits on the Leadership Group for the N8 Child of the North initiative.
Professor Nelson Cowan
University of Wisconsin, US
Nelson Cowan (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1980) is Curators’ Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri. Since his graduate school years, he has published many studies and several books about working memory, selective attention, and their childhood and life-span development, based on research largely funded by the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development. His collaborative work has extended the concepts to an improved understanding of neuropsychological conditions including language disorders, dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia, amnesia, Parkinson’s Disease, and alcoholic intoxication. He is interested in integrating cognitive and neuroscientific research, recently publishing a broad review on the relation between attention and memory in the Annual Review of Psychology (2024) and on theories of consciousness based on an embedded processes approach in Psychological Review (2025). Cowan has served as Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and has presented various keynote addresses, recently at the 2024 Psychonomic Society meeting.