Research output per year
Research output per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (PPLS)
The School comprises Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (Linguistics and English Language). We offer a rich and diverse learning and research environment for our staff and students, with close links between our three subject areas, alongside other world-class research areas within the University and beyond.
There are over 160 academic staff within PPLS, and the breadth of expertise ranges from analytic philosophy and the study of English language, through theoretical and applied linguistics, philosophy of science and epistemology and experimental psychology, to cognitive neurosciences and genetic influences on human behaviour. We have 5 research centres which drive our research and help put our research into practice, connecting academia with industry, policy and the general public.
Read more about our research on the school website.
The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is part of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Profiles
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Sharon Abrahams
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Personal Chair of Neuropsychology
- Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease Research
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Edinburgh Neuroscience
Person: Academic: Research Active
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Peter Ackema
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Personal Chair of Morphosyntax
Person: Academic: Research Active
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Mahrad Almotahari
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Senior Lecturer In Philosophy
Person: Academic: Research Active
Research output
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A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life
Nave, K., 1 Nov 2024, (Accepted/In press) MIT Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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HRT in DMC? The orthographic representation of high rising terminals in WhatsApp
Ilbury, C., Oct 2024, In: Discourse, Context and Media. 61, 100819.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Modular morals: Mapping the organization of the moral brain
Wilkinson, J., Scott Curry, O., Mitchell, B. L. & Bates, T., Oct 2024, In: Brain and Cognition. 180, 106201.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile
Activities
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Cheltenham Literary Festival
Shannon Vallor (Interviewee)
6 Oct 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
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The Metaphysics and the Logic of Ex Nihilo and Absolute Nothingness
Takeshi Morisato (Examiner) & Cecilia Trifogli (Examiner)
4 Oct 2024Activity: Examination types › External Examiner or Assessor
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Reclaiming Our Humanity in Times of AI
Shannon Vallor (Keynote/plenary speaker)
30 Sept 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
Prizes
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2017 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize
Massimi, Michela (Recipient), 20 Jul 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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3 Minute Thesis UK People’s Choice Winner
Long, Madeleine (Recipient), 12 Sept 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Datasets
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Listening test materials for "Waveform generation based on signal reshaping for statistical parametric speech synthesis"
Espic, F. (Creator), Valentini Botinhao, C. (Creator), Wu, Z. (Creator) & King, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 24 Jun 2016
DOI: 10.7488/ds/1433
Dataset
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Listening test materials for "A template-based approach for speech synthesis intonation generation using LSTMs
Ronanki, S. (Creator), Henter, G. (Creator), Wu, Z. (Creator) & King, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 7 Jul 2016
DOI: 10.7488/ds/1435
Dataset
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Shilluk_2016_controlled_ThreeLevelVowelLength
Remijsen, B. (Creator), Ayoker, O. G. (Creator) & Jørgensen, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 24 Aug 2018
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2424, https://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/3166
Dataset
Press/Media
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Sky News - crowd safety at Taylor Swift concerts
7/07/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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How the 15-minute exercise works to strengthen memory
25/09/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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