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Prof David Shanks
Room 230
Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
26 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AP
Appointment
- Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Brain Sciences
- Experimental Psychology
- Div of Psychology & Lang Sciences
- Faculty of Brain Sciences
Research Themes


Research Summary
My research interests include human learning and memory; judgment and decision-making; computational modeling, especially with neural network and signal detection models; amnesia, the hippocampus, and the implicit-explicit distinction; economic psychology and rationality.
Teaching Summary
Appointments
01-SEP-2017 | Deputy Dean, Faculty of Brain Sciences | UCL, United Kingdom | |
01-JAN-2008 – 31-AUG-2017 | Head, UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences | UCL, United Kingdom | |
01-JAN-2003 – 31-DEC-2007 | Head, UCL Department of Psychology | UCL, United Kingdom |
Academic Background
2017 | ATQ04 - Recognised by the HEA as a Senior Fellow | ||
1985 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Cambridge | |
1982 | Bachelor of Arts (Honours) | University of Cambridge | |
ATQ -14 Recognised by Advance HE as a Principal Fellow against Descriptor 4 of the UKPSF | |||
2021 | ATQ14 - Recognised by Advance HE as a Principal Fellow | UCL |