Alan Cowey (1935–2012)

Alan Cowey

theories rigorously. Here are some of my reservations. One generic problem is that Lynch's evidence comes from broad brush comparisons of extremely disparate types of organism. It is true that, on average, bacteria have much large N e values than most eukaryotes for which we currently have data, but they differ in numerous other respects as well, for example lack of regular sexual reproduction....

Alan Cowey (1935–2012)

Alan's work was necessarily interdisciplinary because he saw no way of understanding anatomy, physiology or behaviour without understanding all of them. Hence his work on visual plasticity and development incorporated retinal and collicular anatomy, lesion studies and neuropsychological work with patients. This led him to take up the discovery of blindsight by Larry Weiskrantz, his graduate sup...

Alan Baddeley

Alan Baddeley is Professor of Psychology at the University of York and a Fellow of the Royal Society and the British Academy. He studied psychology at University College London and Princeton before doing a PhD at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, where he spent much of his career as Director. His interests are in human memory, and in particular in working memory, a system for keepin...

Alan Dow

One of the many gifts from Alan to Set-theoretic Topology is the use of elementarity. For a while this was even known as “Dow’s method of elementary submodels”. But Alan would be, was, and still is the first to protest that the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem predates him by a few decades. We have for the longest time been familiar with recursive constructions where often beforehand a sequence of situ...

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