Janet Cockburn is a psychologist whose main interests are in the area of neuropsychological rehabilitation, cognitive-motor interaction after neurological damage and in normal ageing, as well as in the functional correlates of impairments of attention and memory. Together with Barbara Wilson and Alan Baddeley, she was one of the authors of the original RBMT and published (with Philip Smith) norms for elderly people. She has recently retired from the University of Reading (School of Psychology) but has a visiting fellowship there.