John C. Marshall

Who is John C. Marshall?

John C. Marshall was one of the United Kingdom's foremost experimental psychologists, whose research on language disorders and dyslexia helped pioneer the development of the influential discipline of psycholinguistics and cognitive neuropsychology.

After graduating with a BA in 1960 and a PhD in 1967 from the University of Reading, he worked in a variety of clinical settings, researching the effects of acquired brain damage and developmental pathology on higher mental functions including language, spatial cognition, memory, reasoning, and decision making. Throughout this period, he held academic teaching and research posts at the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, and Nijmegen and also held visiting positions at Harvard, McGill, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

In 1980, he became a member of the Medical Research Council’s External Scientific Staff and Director of the Neuropsychology Unit at the Oxford University Department of Clinical Neurology. In 1997, he was appointed Professor of Neuropsychology at Oxford.