Graham Frederick Anthony Harding (19 March 1937 – 20 October 2018) of

Aston University Aston University (abbreviated as ''Aston'' for post-nominals) is a public university situated in the city centre of Birmingham, England. Aston began as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School in 1895, evolving into the UK's first College of a ...

was the first professor of

clinical neurophysiology Clinical neurophysiology is a medical specialty that studies the central and peripheral nervous systems through the recording of bioelectrical activity, whether spontaneous or stimulated. It encompasses both research regarding the pathophysiology ...

in the United Kingdom. He was the first to recognise that television broadcasts and video games could trigger

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. The Harding test was named after him.

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