Logan, Gordon D.

Gordon Logan is the Centennial Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. A cognitive and mathematical psychologist, Logan is well known for his work on cognitive control and inhibition of cognitive and motor activity, divided attention and the nature of the human brain’s processing limitations, and the fundamental characterization of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD. He has also done extensive research on the hierarchical control of skilled copytyping, which he views as a useful model for hierarchically organized complex human skills in general. He collaborates on research that applies mathematical models to neural and behavioral data. Logan received his BA and MSc from the University of Alberta in 1969 and 1972, and received his PhD from McGill University in 1975. He was on the faculty of Queen's University, University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, Purdue University, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign prior to joining the faculty at Vanderbilt. According to Google Scholar, Logan’s work has been cited more than 33,000 times and he has an h index of 86 (as of 2017). He has been the recipient of many grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. He is the editor-in-chief of Cognitive Psychology.