We are an interdisciplinary research collective, concerned with the
modelling of cognitive processing, principally reading and other language processing. We
are primarily based in Edinburgh (although some of us are now further afield).
We ground our modelling in
the observable anatomy of the brain: for instance, in studying
reading we are
currently researching the implications of the fact that the human
fovea is precisely vertically split
realistically large-scale, comprehensive representations: for
instance, we are
currently modelling word recognition using connectionist models
trained on all the words of a particular length, or with semantic
representations for all types of words
cross-linguistic validation: we are studying a range of
languages (currently English, Spanish, Chinese, Hebrew) to establish
psychological universals in language processing
The majority of us are individually located in the
Department of Psychology and in the
School of Informatics in the University of Edinburgh, and our research
is closely tied to the activities of the Language-at-Edinburgh
community.
We welcome inquiries for PhD research in these areas.
Please browse our pages for more details on our research activities.
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