Professor Lorraine Tyler FBA

Cognitive neuroscience
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1995
Subjects
Psychology
Sections
Psychology

Current post

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

2011 -

University of Cambridge MRC Research Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

1998 - 2011

Birkbeck College University of London Professor of Psychology

1990 - 1998

Nijmegen University, The Netherlands Senior Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

1980 - 1985

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Nilli Lavie FBA

Psychological and neural mechanisms of attention, awareness, working memory and cognitive control; Load theory: the effects of information-processing load on attention, perception, and cognition; emotion effects on attention and perception

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Professor Bencie Woll FBA

Sign language as a model to understand human language generally: neuroimaging studies of commonalities in processing spoken & signed languages; the influence of modality of communication on language structure; sociolinguistics of Deaf communities.

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Professor Elena Lieven FBA

Children’s language development: the emergence and construction of grammar in typologically different languages; the relationship between input and the process of language development; variation in children’s communicative and linguistic environments.

Elena Lieven FBA

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