Susan Gathercole

Susan Gathercole is a cognitive psychologist who has been engaged in research on human memory over the past 25 years. Current projects focus on:

• the theoretical structure of working (or short-term) memory and its changes during development
• the role played by working memory in learning and its disorders, particularly during the school years
• impairments of working memory in developmental disorders including specific learning difficulties, Specific Language Impairment, and ADHD
• design of educational interventions that will enable children with memory impairments to overcome the associated learning difficulties

• the development of theoretically-sound methods of assessing memory and related cognitive functions in children.