Donald Eric Broadbent
(1926-1993), PsychologistSitter in 1 portrait
Psychologist. Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Broadbent joined the Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Unit in 1949. He studied the effects of noise on performance efficiency, and applied his techniques to attention and cognitive function development. From 1958, Broadbent was director of the Applied Psychology Unit at the University of Cambridge, before moving to the University of Oxford in 1974, where he became a fellow of Wolfson College. Broadbent was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1968, and made a CBE in 1974.
by Anita Corbin and John O'Grady
chromogenic print, 1989
NPG x132604
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