John T. Wixted University of California, San Diego, Department of Psychology

John Wixted is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at UC San Diego. He earned his Ph.D. from Emory University in 1987, and his research addresses the fundamental mechanisms of human memory. In recent years, his work has focused on signal-detection analyses of recognition memory, the neuroscience of memory and amnesia, and eyewitness identification. Professionally, he has served as editor-in-chief of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (1998-2002), and he recently edited the 5-volume 4^th edition of the venerable Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (2018). In 2011, he was the recipient of the Howard Crosby Warren Medal for distinction in contemporary research in experimental psychology, and in 2019 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.