This image represents my research interest in the work of Sir Frederic Bartlett. Bartlett was the first professor of psychology in Cambridge, England. He wrote a classic text on memory: Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology. In this 1932 book Bartlett presented a view of memory as active, constructive and interest driven, an approach that was quite at odds with the behaviorist approach dominant in American psychology at that time. I recently wrote a paper about the treatment of Bartlett's work at different times in psychology that will appear in History of Psychology.

The image also symbolizes my own national background. I was born in and grew up near Edinburgh, Scotland. I attended St. Andrews University as an undergraduate and Oxford University as a graduate student.