Professor William Marslen-Wilson FBA

Linguistics
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1996
Subjects
Linguistics, Psychology

Current post

Honorary Professor of Language and Cognition, University of Cambridge; Visiting Scientist, Speech and Language Group, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Past appointments

Other Institutions Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge

1997 -

Other Institutions Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge

1997 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Psychology

1990 - 1997

University of Cambridge Lecturer

1982 - 1984

Publications

Function and process in spoken word-recognition Attention and performance 1984

Against modularity Modularity in knowledge representation and natural-language understanding 1987

Lexical representation and process 1989

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The understanding of psychological and psychosocial mechanisms underlying mental disorders, particularly schizophrenia, psychoses and post-traumatic stress and the development and evaluation of psychological treatments to improve outcomes

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Professor Martin John Pickering FBA

The psychology of language, particularly language production, comprehension, dialogue, and bilingualism

Martin John Pickering FBA (credit Elizabeth Pickering)

Professor Kate Nation FBA

The psychology of language, especially how children learn to read and process written language

Professor Kate Nation FBA (credit John Cairns)

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