Keith Andrew Wesnes in memoriam

摘要

It was with great sadness that I learned recently of Keith's passing. He was truly a giant of our field, always direct and utterly consistent in his views, he was a valuable colleague, a challenging adversary, and a much‐cherished fellow‐traveler. The assessment of cognition was, for the 20 years I knew Keith, the focus of his professional interest. Inspired by his PhD experience of investigating the effects of nicotine on cognition, Keith recognized the gaps in our cognitive testing armamentarium and sought to plug them with a suite of computerized cognitive measures. In establishing his core set of tests, Keith borrowed judiciously from experimental psychology, wisely selecting brief, reliable, and valid measures of episodic memory, attention, and working memory, in his view the key cognitive domains. In doing so he borrowed thoughtfully and effectively from cognitive psychology's rich history of experimentation and especially the work of Franciscus Donders (1818–1889) and Saul Sternberg.