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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Aditi Lahiri FBA

Synchronic and diachronic morpho-phonology of Germanic and Indo-Aryan language families, and psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research on the phonological and morphological representations of the mental lexicon

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Professor Thalia Catherine Eley FBA

The role of social, genetic, and psychological factors in the development and treatment of anxiety and depression

Thalia Catherine Eley FBA

Professor Gordon Brown FBA

Human memory; decision-making in context; the incommensurability of value; money and happiness; polarisation; relationship between income inequality, conspicuous consumption, and nationalism.

Gordon Brown FBA

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