Jon Driver

Jon Driver trained in Experimental Psychology at Oxford in the 1980s. He then spent a formative period in the USA at Oregon (with Mike Posner among others) and in the Bay Area, before returning to the UK for a faculty post at Cambridge. He moved to London in 1997, where he has been Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience since 2004. He works on multisensory perception, selective attention and spatial cognition, studying the normal and damaged brain in humans but with close reference to related animal studies. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, of the British Academy, and a member of Academia Europaea.