Profile

Biography

• University of Cambridge
  BSc in Physics
• University of Sussex
  MSc in Experimental Psychology
• University of Cambridge
  PhD

Career

• University of Sussex
  Research Fellow (1971-72)
• University of Stirling
  Research Fellow (1972-74)
• Medical Research Council, Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge.
  Scientist (1974-1979)
• University of Manchester
  Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (1979-91)
  
• University of Lancaster
  Professor (1991-2000)
• University of  York
  Professor (2000-11)/Emeritus Professor (2011-present)

Research

Overview

Human learning, memory and cognition. Special focus on working memory.

Current projects

• Modeling temporal grouping and serial order in verbal short-term memory, with Mark Hurlstone and Tom Hartley
• Binding in visual working memory, with Alan Baddeley, Richard Allen, Taiji Ueno, Satoru Saito, and Judit Mate
• Information integration in visual working memory, with Philip Quinlan
• Competitive processes in goal maintenance, with Alan Baddeley, Satoru Saito and Erina Saeki
• Word learning in normal and dyslexic adults, with Meesha Warmington

Research group(s)

• Adult Cognition and Neuropsychology
• Cognitive Development And Developmental Neuropsychology
• Language Processing

Grants

Collaborators

• Alan Baddeley
  University of York
• Tom Hartley   University of York
  

Available PhD research projects

Supervision

• Becky Prince
  Timing of subvocal rehearsal, supervised jointly with Tom Hartley

Publications

Selected publications

• Smyth, M.M., Hay, D.C., Hitch, G.J., & Horton, N.J. (2005). Serial position memory in the visuo-spatial domain: Reconstructing sequences of unfamiliar faces. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58A, 909-930.
• Towse, J. N., Hitch, G. J., Hamilton, Z., Peacock, K., & Hutton, U. M. Z. (2005). Working memory period: the endurance of mental representations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58A, 547-571.
• Hitch, G.J., Fastame, M.C. & Flude, B.(2005). How is the serial order of a verbal sequence coded? Some comparisons between models. Memory, 3-4, 247-258.
• Burgess, N. and G. J. Hitch (2006). A revised model of short-term memory and long-term learning of verbal sequences. Journal of Memory and Language. 55, 627-652.
• Allen, R.J., Baddeley, A.D. & Hitch, G.J. (2006). The binding of visual features in working memory: Is integration automatic or resource demanding? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 298-313.
• Towse, J.N., Hitch, G.J. & Horton, N. (2007). Working memory as the interface between processing and retention: A developmental perspective. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 35, 219- 251.
• Hitch, G.J., Flude, B. & Burgess, N. (2009). Slave to the rhythm: Experimental tests of a model for verbal short-term memory and long-term sequence learning. Journal of Memory and Language, 61, 97-111.
• Baddeley, A.D., Hitch, G.J. & Allen, R.J. (2009). Working memory and binding in sentence recall. Journal of Memory and Language, 61, 438-456.
• Towse, J.N.,  Hitch, G.J.,  Horton, N. & Harvey, K.  (2010). Synergies between processing and memory in children’s reading span. Developmental Science, 13, 779-789.
• Williamson, V., Mitchell, T., Hitch, G.J. & Baddeley, A.D. (2010). Musicians' memory for verbal and tonal materials under conditions of irrelevant sound. Psychology of Music, 38, 331-350.
• Williamson, V., Baddeley, A.D., & Hitch, G.J.  (2010). Musicians’ and nonmusicians’ short-term memory for verbal and musical sequences: Comparing phonological similarity and pitch proximity. Memory and Cognition, 38, 163-175.
• Karlsen, P.J., Allen, R.J., Baddeley, A.D. & Hitch, G.J. (2010). Binding Across Space and Time in Visual Working Memory. Memory and Cognition, 38, 292-303.
• Baddeley, A.D. & Hitch, G.J. Working memory. (2010). Scholarpedia, 5, 3015.
• Baddeley, A.D., Allen, R.J. & Hitch, G.J. (2010). Investigating the episodic buffer. Psychologica Belgica, 50, 223-243.
• Ueno, T., Allen, R.J., Hitch, G.J., Baddeley, A.D & Saito, S. (2011). Disruption of visual feature binding in working memory. Memory and Cognition, 39, 12-23.    
  
• Ueno, T., Mate, J., Allen, R.J., Hitch, G.J. & Baddeley, A.D. (2011). What goes through the gate? Exploring interference with visual feature binding . Neuropsychologia, 49 , 1597-1604 .
• Baddeley, A., Allen, R.J., & Hitch, G.J. (2011). Binding in visual working memory: The role of the episodic buffer. Neuropsychologia, 49, 1393-1400.
• Hu, Y., Xu, Z. & Hitch , G.J. (2011). Strategic and automatic effects of visual working memory on attention in visual search. Visual Cognition, 19, 799-816.
• Vredeveldt, A., Hitch, G.J. & Baddeley, A.D. (2011). Eye closure helps memory by reducing cognitive load and enhancing visualisation. Memory and Cognition, 39, 1253-1263.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Postgraduate

External activities

Memberships

• British Psychological Society
• Experimental Psychology Society
• European Society for Cognitive Psychology

Editorial duties

• Psychological Research
  Editorial board