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[plunkett (Kim Plunkett)]

              Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology
                    University of Oxford
           Department of Experimental Psychology

                     Job Specification


The successful applicant will be required to assume  special
responsibility  for  teaching the Final Honours School paper
"Memory and Cognition" which covers the following topics  to
be published in Examination Decrees and Regulations:

     Basic processes and  varieties  of  human  memory.
     Memory retrieval and interference; recognition and
     recall;  short-  and  long-term  memory;   working
     memory;  sensory  memory;  priming; acquisition of
     cognitive and motor skills; modality-specific  and
     material-specific  varieties  of coding in memory;
     mnemonics; every-day memory; mathematical and com-
     putational  models of learning and memory; impair-
     ment of learning and memory.

     The representation and use of  knowledge.   Topics
     such  as: semantic memory; inference; concept for-
     mation; encoding of similarities and  differences;
     concepts,   prototypes,  and  natural  categories;
     schemata;  imagery;  problem  solving;   decision-
     making;   heuristics  and  biases;  cross-cultural
     differences in cognition.

This is one of four papers in cognitive  psychology  offered
in Final Honours.

The appointed lecturer will be  expected  to  pursue  active
research  in  an  area  of  cognitive  psychology.  Although
interests in  higher  mental  functions,  cognitive  neurop-
sychology,  language, or artificial intelligence would be an
advantage, it should be  stressed  to  potential  applicants
that there is no restriction on area of interest.


Further details can be obtained from:

Professor S.D. Iversen,
Head of Department
Department of Experimental Psychology
South Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3UD

or email:

Jane Brooks - brooks at psy.ox.ac.uk