I have a Readership joint between the School of Informatics and the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences (PPLS), at the University of Edinburgh.
My research is currently chiefly concerned with normal and impaired visual word recognition, hemispheric interaction, reading, and the mental lexicon. It involves both experimental work and connectionist cognitive modelling.
My teaching principally involves psycholinguistics and cognitive modelling, at the MSc level, and I also teach more general cognitive psychology at the undergraduate level. In 2007-8 I am teaching two MSc-level courses Visual Word Recognition (copies of slides are here)) and The Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, and a second-year undergraduate course in Cognitive Psychology. My current postgrads are Mateo Obregon (working on issues of reading and the visual pathways), Natasha Dare (working on parafoveal letter information in the reading of words and text) and Wan-Yu Hung (working on Chinese synaesthesia - jointly supervised with Jools Simner).
My recent publications are listed here.
I'm happy to give talks about current research. Mail me if you'd like me to give a talk.
I can be emailed by clicking on rcs@inf.ed.ac.uk
To find out more about natural language research and teaching at the University of Edinburgh, see the Language at Edinburgh website. Visit CCCP, the Centre for Connectionist modelling of Cognitive Processes, our research group.
Last update: October 2007