10 Facts About Donald Broadbent

Donald Broadbent lived after his father left in Llandyman and later Mold.

Donald Broadbent studied experimental psychology under the guidance of Frederic Bartlett who was a pragmatic teacher focused on evidence before theory.

In 1974 Donald Broadbent became a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and returned to applied science; along with his colleague Dianne Berry, he developed new ideas about implicit learning from consideration of human performance in complex industrial processes.

Donald Broadbent had begun this work previous to working at the Applied Psychology Unit while working for the Royal Navy, and eventually this focus led to the filter model of attention he is most famous for.

Donald Broadbent continued to visit the United States on occasion as part of his work.

Donald Broadbent's book changed the face of psychology and is attributed as a significant factor in the development of the field of cognitive psychology.

Donald Broadbent went on to publish Behaviour, Decision and Stress, and In Defence of Empirical Psychology as well as nearly 250 miscellaneous articles or commentaries.

Donald Broadbent died only two years after his retirement on 10 April 1993.

Donald Broadbent came up with this theory based on data from an experiment: three pairs of different digits are presented simultaneously, one set of three digits in one ear, and another set of three digits in the other.

Together they had two daughters before going separate ways; the marriage was dissolved in 1972 when Donald Broadbent married Margaret Gregory, who had worked as his research assistant and became a lifelong collaborator.