biography
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Broadbent, Donald (Eric)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1926–93)
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| biography:
| British psychologist. He joined the scientific staff of the Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Research Unit in Cambridge after World War 2 (director, 1949–58). A major figure in post-war experimental psychology, he was the most influential British psychologist in the movement to import ideas from communication theory and cybernetics into cognitive psychology. In 1974 he became a member of the external staff of the Medical Research Council, based in Oxford. |
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