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ALAN Parkin, Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex, died on Friday 12 November, aged 49, after suffering a cardiac arrest two days earlier from which he never recovered consciousness. He was an international authority on neuropsychology and a gifted communicator, equally at home addressing a world congress, a packed hall of undergraduates or the studio audience of an Esther Rantzen show.
Al had spent almost all of his working life at Sussex. After a BSc in zoology at Reading, he took the experimental psychology MSc conversion course at Sussex and then stayed on to do a DPhil on word recognition. He held a temporary lectureship for two years, had a year as a lecturer at Goldsmiths College and then returned to a permanent position at Sussex in 1982.
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