He was the Watts Professor of Experimental Psychology and principal investigator for the CNN Lab [1] at Oxford University.
He was educated at Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby followed by the University of Bristol where he gained both his bachelor's degree in 1976 and PhD in 1980.
[4] Humphreys was previously a professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Birmingham, where he still holds an honorary professorship.
His research interests covered a broad range of topics, from the diagnosis and management of cognitive problems after brain injury, as well as visual attention, perception, social cognition, language and the control of action.
His work covers a wide range of neuropsychological disorders including agnosia, apraxia, action disorganisation syndrome, alexia and amnesia, and includes the development of new clinical screening instruments for detecting cognitive problems after brain injury.