Prof Martin Pickering
Position
Professor
Personal URL
Phone
0131 650 3447
Location
S12 (7GS)
Research Interests
Psychology of language and communication, including language production, language comprehension, dialogue, and bilingualism, with a focus on syntax and semantics.
Biography
Representative Publications
- Pickering, M.J., & Frisson, S.P. (2001). Processing ambiguous verbs: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 556-573.
- Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P., & McLean, J.F. (2002). Constituent structure is formulated in one stage. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 586-605.
- Pickering, M.J., & Garrod, S. (2004). The interactive-alignment model: Developments and refinements. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 212-225.
- Hartsuiker, R.J., Pickering, M.J., & Veltkamp, E. (2004). Is syntax separate or shared between languages? Cross-linguistic syntactic priming in Spanish/English bilinguals. Psychological Science, 15, 409-414.
- Cleland, A.A., & Pickering, M.J. (2006). Do writing and speaking employ the same syntactic representations? Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 185-198.
- Pickering, M.J., & Garrod, S. (2007). Do people use language production to make predictions during comprehension? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 105-110.
Publications
Students supervised
- Madeleine Beveridge (Lead)
- Chiara Gambi (Lead)
- Takayuki Miura (Lead)
- Mariana Vega-Mendoza