1. 114 Years of Experimental Psychology in Oxford
Donation from
Mrs Hugh Watts
William Brown to the University for
3rd Wilde Reader the foundation of
an Institute
Establishment of the
Wilde Readership
in Mental Philosophy
Establishment
Henry Wilde of a Diploma
course
1890 1898 1900 1904 1910 1920 1921 1930 1935 1936 1940
G.F. Stout First Institute
1st Wilde W. McDougall 34 Banbury Road
Reader 2nd Wilde with W. Brown
Reader The first as Director
laboratories

2. The Institute of Experimental Psychology
1 South Parks Road
Larry Weiskrantz
appointed Head
Establishment of the of the Institute
Final Honour School of Carolus Oldfield
Psychology Physiology Head of the Richard Dennet
Philosophy Institute & of the
Professor George first
Psycholinguistics Administrator
Humphrey Unit
first holder of the appointed
Chair of Psychology
1947 1948 1950 1952 1957 1960 1964 1967 1968
Appointment of 3 lecturers Jeffrey The Institute
Gray acquired its
appointed first computer
Lecturer
Brian Farrell Bernard
Wilde Reader Babington-
Smith Brian Oliver
appointed Foss Zangwill
Lecturer
Michael Argyle Anne Treisman
appointed Lecturer & Patrick Rabbitt
in Social Psychology David Vowles joined the Institute as Lecturers

3. Establishment
of a new Chair The Institute moved to 9 South Parks Road
the Watts & becomes the Department of
Professorship Experimental Psychology
of Psychology
Peter Bryant
Start of the Final Honour 2nd Watts Professor
School of Experimental
Jerome Bruner Psychology
1st Watts Professor
1969 1970 1974 1980 1986 1990
Completion
of laboratories 50th anniversary
& seminar room. of the founding of
B. F. Skinner and the Institute
Noam Chomsky
are among the first
speakers in the new Professor
seminar room Donald Between 1967 and 1986, the Department expanded with appointments of new
Broadbent teaching and research staff including: Gordon Claridge, Alan Cowey, Ruben
joins the Conrad, Dick Passingham, Nancy Waugh, Kim Plunkett, Maryanne Martin, Edmund Rolls,
Department Nick Rawlins, Peter Mcleod+, Michel Triesman+, Bruce Henning+, Jos Jaspers+, Alan
Allport+, Paul Harris+, Brian Rogers+, Ruth Campbell+, Nick Emler+, Jane Mellanby+,
Lynden Eaves+, Burt Rosner+, Susanna Millar+, Kathy Parks+ [+not illustrated]

4. Alan Cowey
appointed Director of the
MRC IRC in Brain & Behaviour
Sue Iversen is Establishment of the Centre for
appointed Professor Functional Magnetic Resonance
of Psychology & Imaging of the Brain
Establishment of the (FMRIB) established by Alan
McDonnell-Pew Cognitive Head of Department
Cowey, John Newsom-Davies, &
Neuroscience & MRC Brain George Radda, with state-of-the-
& Behaviour Centres art MRI facilities
1991 1993 1995 1997
Establishment
of the Oxford BabyLab
First TMS lab
established
by Alan Cowey &
Vincent Walsh MSc in Neuroscience
introduced with the
Wellcome Trust 4-year
K. Plunkett graduate programme, a joint
Founder and Director of programme between
this new research facility Experimental Psychology
and other Departments

5. Oliver Braddick appointed
Professor of Psychology &
Head of Department Opening of the Centre
for Developmental Science
Visual Development Research Assessment
Unit established in Exercise 2008, with
Oxford 80% of work considered
‘world leading’ and
‘internationally
Department excellent’
joins the new
Medical Sciences
Division
1998 2001 2002 2005 2008 2010
MSc in
Establishment of the
Psychological
Oxford Centre for
Research
Human Brain
established
Activity (OHBA),
with new MEG Kia Nobre
facility Director
Nick Rawlins
Dorothy Bishop Miles Hewstone joins 3rd Watts Professor
joins as a the Department and
Wellcome Trust establishes the Centre
Principal for the Study of
Research Fellow Intergroup Conflict

6. Glyn Humphreys
appointed 4th Watts
Professor &
Head of Department
Masud Husain,
Wellcome Trust
Establishment of the Principal Research
by Oxford Cognitive by
Fellow
Neuropsychology Centre
(Oxford CNC)
2011 2012
Establishment of the Oxford Centre for
Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (OXCADAT)
by by
Opening of the Bio-
Medical Services
Building
New Biomedical
Sciences degree
David Clark Anke Ehlers,
incoming Wellcome Trust
Professor of Principal Research
Psychology Fellow