Martin Pickering
British cognitive psychologist
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Martin John Pickering FBA FRSE (born 2 June 1966)[1] is a British cognitive psychologist. He is Professor of the Psychology of Language and Communication at the University of Edinburgh.[2][4][5]
June 2, 1966
- Durham University (BA)
- University of Edinburgh (PhD)
Martin Pickering | |
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| Born | Martin John Pickering June 2, 1966 |
| Education | City of London School[1] |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psycholinguistics[2] |
| Institutions | University of Glasgow |
| Thesis | Processing dependencies (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Elisabet Engdahl |
| Doctoral students | Andrew J. Stewart[3] |
| Website | edwebprofiles |
Education
Pickering was privately educated at the City of London School[1] and studied psychology at Durham University, graduating with a first-class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1987.[1] He completed his PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh in 1991 supervised by Elisabet Engdahl.[6][7]
Career and research
After a period as a postdoc, he joined the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in 1995. He returned to Edinburgh as Reader in Psychology in 2000, and was promoted to Professor in 2003.[8]
Pickering describes his main research interests within the psychology of language as language production, language comprehension, dialogue, language and imagination, joint action, and bilingualism.[7] He has served as editor of the Journal of Memory and Language and in 2023 was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[9][1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007.[10]
His former doctoral students include Andrew J. Stewart.[3][11]
Selected publications
- Understanding dialogue: Language use and social interaction[9]
- Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue[12]
- Is syntax separate or shared between languages?[13]
- Structural priming: A critical review[14]
- An integrated theory of language production and comprehension[15]
- An experimental approach to linguistic representation[16]
- Predicting while comprehending language: A theory and review[17]
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