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Professor William Marslen-Wilson FBA

Linguistics
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1996
Subjects
Linguistics, Psychology
Sections
Linguistics and Philology , Psychology
Website
http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?wmarslen

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Susan Fiske FBA

Social cognition, especially cognitive stereotypes & emotional prejudices, at cultural, interpersonal & neuroscientific levels; reactions to social comparison, status, social class, gender, ethnicity, immigrants

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Professor Adam Ledgeway FBA

The comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages; Italian and Romance dialectology; Latin; Italo-Greek; syntactic theory, linguistic change and language contact

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Professor Terrie Moffitt FBA

Psychology Behavioural Genetics

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