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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Translational genomics of osteoarthritis in 1,962,069 individuals
Estonian Biobank Research Team, FinnGen, Genes and Health Research Team, HUNT All-In Pain, Million Veteran Program, Regeneron Genetics Center & DBDS Genomic Consortium, 9 Apr 2025, In: Nature.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Understanding the development of social interaction perception
Koldewyn, K. & Richardson, H., 8 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Trends in Neurosciences.Research output: Contribution to journal › Short survey › peer-review
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Rational causal induction from events in time
Gong, T., Pacer, M., Griffiths, T. L. & Bramley, N. R., 7 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Psychological Review.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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European Conference on Personality
Rene Mottus (Chair)
Jul 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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The 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Neil Bramley (Chair)
30 Jul 2025 → 2 Aug 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Rethinking the Language of Metaphysics: World Philosophies and Beyond
Takeshi Morisato (Keynote speaker)
20 Apr 2025Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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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)
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PPLS Small Project: Investigating the development trajectory of communicative efficiency
Tal, S.
1/03/25 → 31/07/25
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
Datasets
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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
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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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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
Press/Media
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US government announces it has achieved ability to 'manipulate space and time' with new technology
17/04/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Nurturing now, thriving later: The lasting power of affectionate mothering
17/04/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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