Professor Mark Johnson
Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
Prof Mark Johnson is Professor of Experimental Psychology (1931) and Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. He obtained his BSc in Biological Sciences with honours in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh, and his PhD from Cambridge. In between two periods as a Research Scientist at the Medical Research Council’s Cognitive Development Unit in London (1985-89 and 1994-98), he was Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. In 1997 he moved with MRC funding to Birkbeck, University of London, and established the Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development.
Mark has been working in collaboration with the Autism Research Centre on event-related potential and autism.