Prestigious BPS Award for Andy Young
Posted on 30 August 2013
Remarkably, this is the second successive year that the award has gone to an academic in the Department of Psychology; fellow University of York Professor Alan Baddeley FRS won the same award in 2012.
The BPS is the representative body for psychology and psychologists inthe UK. The Lifetime Achievement award is made each year to a psychologist with an outstanding record of personal achievements who has also made significant contributions to the advancement of psychological knowledge.
Professor Young is among the world's most influential Psychologists. He has written over 250 peer-reviewed publications which are widely referenced by other scientists; he has over 29000 citations to his name, and like Professor Baddeley, is listed in Thomson-Reuters international index of highly-cited scientists.
His research focuses on the processes that underlie our perception offaces. For example, how do we understand another person's emotions from their facial expression, how do we recognise familiar faces, and what happens when we form an impression about someone's character based on their appearence? What parts of the brain are involved, andwhat happens when they are damaged?
Andy is well known to current and former students. He has been based at the University of York since 1997 and makes an important contribution to teaching in the Department, where he is currently Director of Teaching. A former Head of Department, he was also influential in developing the York Neuroimaging Centre.