Dr. Fergus Craik - Academics

After receiving his PhD from the University of Liverpool in 1965, Dr. Craik spent 6 years at Birkbeck College in London, England where his focus turned temporarily from aging to strictly memory processes. During this time, he spent one year as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, a year he thoroughly enjoyed. It is therefore no surprise that the University of Toronto offered Dr. Craik a position he happily accepted in 1971.

Influenced by Dr. Anne Treisman's idea that information is processed only after a series of analyses, Dr. Craik spent most of his early years at the University of Toronto setting the framework for the famous Craik-Lockhart paper which outlined the "Levels of Processing" theory.