BCoS Cognitive Screen

Glyn Humphreys is Watts Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and was formerly Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Birmingham and at Birkbeck College. He has edited the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Visual Cognition and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. He has been President of the Experimental Psychology Society and is currently President of the British Neuropsychological Society. He has won the British Psychological Society's Spearman Medal, its Prize for Cognitive Psychology and its President's Award for research. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Academy of Social Sciences and the British Academy. Wai-Ling Bickerton is an occupational therapist who has worked as a clinician and a researcher. From 2002-2012, Wai-Ling helped develop the BCoS, assessed patients and trained health professionals from worldwide with the tool. Since 1992, she has managed large scale multi-centred research projects in psychiatry, neuro-rehabilitation and neuropsychology throughout the UK and Hong Kong, covering acute hospitals to long term community care. Dana Samson is a cognitive neuropsychologist who has worked both as clinician and researcher. She has worked at the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham and currently directs research in affective and social cognitive neuroscience and teaches clinical neuropsychology at Universite Catholique de Louvain. Jane Riddoch is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, having formerly been Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Birmingham. Jane has published 6 books and over 200 papers in leading papers in the field. She is a former President of the British Neuropsychology Society and on the executive committee of the Federation of European Neuropsychology Societies. Her research interests cover disorders of object recognition, attention and action, as well as neuropsychological rehabilitation.

1. Attention and Executive Functions. 2. Language. 3. Memory. 4. Number Skills. 5. Praxis. 6. Appendices.