F. Gregory Ashby
F. Gregory Ashby is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is known for his work in mathematical psychology, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.
Education and career
Ashby received a B.S. in mathematics and psychology from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, in 1975. In 1976, he began his graduate work under James Townsend at Purdue University. He received an M.S. in Psychology from Purdue in 1976, and a Ph.D. in 1980. In 1980, he was awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, which he completed in the lab of William K. Estes at Harvard University during the 1981-1982 academic year. His first academic position was as an assistant professor at Ohio State University. He moved to UCSB in 1986, where he has remained ever since. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1994 and named a Distinguished Professor in 2013.During his time at UCSB, Ashby served as Chair of the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Chair of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Dynamical Neuroscience, and as the inaugural Director of the UCSB Brain Imaging Center. Professionally, he served as President of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Chair of the National Institutes of Health Cognition and Perception Study Section, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, the Psychonomic Society, and the Society for Experimental Psychology. In 2017, he was awarded the Howard Crosby Warren Medal for outstanding achievement in Experimental Psychology in the United States and Canada.