School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Projects

Projects per year 1994 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2027

• 5 Curtailed
• 6 Not started
• 126 Active
• 896 Finished

Projects per year

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• Finished

  Investigating the dissociable influences of emotion and motivation on cognitive control engagement

  Chevalier, N.

  10/01/19 → 31/07/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Neural coding of sentence-level semantic information: An MVPA study

  Hoffman, P.

  1/01/19 → 31/07/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Activation Analysis 100%
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging 47%
  • Motion Perception 35%
  • Semantics 20%
  • Language 10%

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis

  King, S. & Valentini Botinhao, C.

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/01/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• The Processing of Multiword by Infants

  Ota, M.

  Non-EU-based charities

  1/01/19 → 1/07/19

  Project: Research

• Conscientious measurement of conscientiousness: Replication and extension of a 36-scale structural analysis and consequential outcomes.

  Bates, T.

  1/01/19 → 31/05/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• The role of shared social identification and communication style on cooperation with professional first responders

  Templeton, A.

  1/01/19 → 31/07/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • emergency services 100%
  • Sports 24%
  • well-being 22%
  • month contract 20%
  • Fans 14%

• Philosopher in Residence: colony of artists

  Ward, D.

  1/01/19 → 31/07/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Artist 100%
  • Residence 40%
  • Pupil 40%
  • Philosophy 36%
  • Regular 34%

• Language, Place and Identity: exploring children's linguistic and cognitive development in heritage and community languages

  Hughes, T. & Sorace, A.

  1/01/19 → 31/03/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Organized Financing 100%
  • Language 67%
  • Linguistics 47%
  • Education 26%
  • Child 18%

• Alexander of Aphrodisias and Aristotles's De anima

  Kupreeva, I.

  Other

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

• Foundations for expressive speech synthesis

  King, S. & Valentini Botinhao, C.

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/01/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• Semantic Similarity, Gist, and Episodic Memory Encoding: An fMRI study

  Morcom, A. & Hoffman, P.

  1/01/19 → 31/07/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Semantics 100%
  • Psychology Recognition 84%
  • Memory 58%
  • Temporal Lobe 44%
  • Perirhinal Cortex 23%

• Moray Endowment Fund

  Hoffman, P.

  1/01/19 → 30/06/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Word Processing 100%
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging 96%
  • Financial Management 83%
  • Semantics 75%
  • Multivariate Analysis 51%

• Comparing the neural networks involved in comprehension and production of natural speech

  Hoffman, P.

  1/01/19 → 31/07/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Semantics 100%
  • Semantic Web 60%
  • Prefrontal Cortex 43%
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging 31%

• ELG- European Language Grid

  Germann, U. & Renals, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/19 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Acoustics 100%
  • Neural networks 80%
  • Speech recognition 70%
  • Transcription 65%
  • Decoding 64%

• Neuroimaging Society in ALS

  Abrahams, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/12/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Language Evolves schools workshops

  Smith, K. & Culbertson, J.

  1/12/18 → 14/10/20

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • festival 100%
  • primary school 69%
  • funding 60%

• Neuroimaging in ALS Symposium

  Wolters, M. & Abrahams, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/12/18 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

• OPEN Scotland launch and Philosophy cafe

  Watson, L.

  1/12/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Being Human 2018

  Alcorn, R.

  15/11/18 → 24/11/18

  Project: Other (Non-Funded/Miscellaneous)

• Dynamic predictors of and corrections for attrition in Understanding Society

  Murray, A.

  ESRC

  1/11/18 → 29/11/20

  Project: Research

• Spoken Dialogue Processing for Robot Companions 2019

  Lai, C.

  Other

  1/11/18 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

• Social Class & Linguistic Variation in Edinburgh in 1975

  Hall-Lew, L.

  1/10/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • social class 100%
  • linguistics 72%

• Automatic Extraction of Rich Metadata from Broadcast Speech

  Renals, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

  • Tuning 100%
  • Feature extraction 99%

• Target-distractor competition in a tactile search task

  Gherri, E.

  1/10/18 → 30/06/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• How does language experience support language development? Short-term priming and long-term learning.

  Branigan, H.

  ESRC

  1/09/18 → 28/02/23

  Project: Research

• Prediction during comprehension: Do people predict from their own perspective?

  Pickering, M.

  Other

  1/09/18 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research

  • Discourse Context 100%
  • Utterance 66%
  • experiment 44%
  • discourse 40%
  • Prediction 35%

• The implications of alignment for English-language teaching in China.

  Branigan, H. & Pickering, M.

  1/08/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • education system 100%
  • grant 99%
  • English language 99%
  • China 72%
  • Teaching 51%

• The Art of Intelligent Ageing: Portraits of the Lothian Birth Cohort Studies

  Deary, I.

  1/08/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • grant 100%

• Scotland’s Multilingual Stories – separating myths from facts and feelings

  Sorace, A.

  1/08/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Exhibitions 100%
  • Holidays 87%
  • Scotland 78%
  • Emotions 53%
  • Education 42%

• CAHSS Global Fellowship

  Cowie, C. & Elliott slosarova, Z.

  31/07/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Can dyslexia candidate genes be found in adults?

  Luciano, M.

  23/07/18 → 3/08/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • gene 100%

• Cognitive and behavioural symptoms in motor neurone disease and their assessment: The Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen- Hindi and Urdu

  Abrahams, S.

  1/07/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Motor Neuron Disease 100%
  • Behavioral Symptoms 97%
  • Neurobehavioral Manifestations 96%
  • Organized Financing 94%
  • Financial Management 91%

• Evidence for Better Lives Study

  Murray, A.

  Non-EU-based charities

  1/06/18 → 28/02/20

  Project: Research

  • Intimate Partner Violence 100%
  • Violence 86%
  • Parturition 69%
  • Vietnam 69%
  • Exposure to Violence 56%

• Saying enough, without saying too much: linguistic and cognitive factors in effective referential communication

  Long, M. & Rohde, H.

  EU other

  1/05/18 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

• Brain imaging and cognitive ageing in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: IV

  Cox, S. & Deary, I.

  MRC

  1/05/18 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

  • Glymphatic System 100%
  • Venules 75%
  • Arterioles 69%
  • Independent Living 65%
  • Fractals 55%

• Ensemble music performance: exploring the developmental trajectory of goal representation

  Hadley, L.

  UK-based charities

  1/04/18 → 28/02/19

  Project: Research

• Digital methods in New-World language change: Words & sounds in older Mapudungun

  Molineaux Ress, B. & Honeybone, P.

  Other

  1/04/18 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • Mapudungun 100%
  • Native American Languages 58%
  • Parsing 46%
  • Language Change 33%
  • History 29%

• Supporting children with language disorders in primary Gaelic-medium schools

  Chondrogianni, V.

  1/04/18 → 31/07/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Language Disorders 100%
  • Child Language 97%
  • Language 57%
  • Brunei 31%
  • Indonesia 21%

• Extended Cognition in the Classroom: Understanding the use and integration of assistive technology for students with additional needs

  Pritchard, D.

  1/04/18 → 31/07/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Intellectual Humility 100%
  • Conviction 55%
  • cognition 52%
  • Intellectual Virtues 43%
  • Self-confidence 40%

• In touch with attention: Electrophysiological investigations of the neural correlates of tactile selective attention

  Gherri, E.

  UK-based charities

  1/04/18 → 1/03/19

  Project: Research

• PPLS Pilot: Hierarchical processing during language development

  Rabagliati, H.

  1/04/18 → 31/07/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Language Development 100%

• PPLS Pilot: Extended cognition in the classroom understanding the use and integration of assisted technology for students with additional needs

  Pritchard, D., Stapleton, M., Watson, L. & Gordon, E.

  1/04/18 → 31/07/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Cognition 100%
  • Students 88%
  • Technology 82%

• Language and cognitive development in under-represented populations: a study on refugee children in Turkey

  Rabagliati, H.

  Learned Societies

  31/03/18 → 30/12/21

  Project: Research

• Leveraging routinely collected and linked research data to study the causes and consequences of common mental disorders

  Deary, I.

  MRC

  31/03/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • personality 100%
  • Macaca mulatta 92%
  • retirement 86%
  • gender 55%
  • health 41%

• Hierarchical processing during language development.

  Rabagliati, H.

  1/03/18 → 31/08/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Language Development 100%

• Synthesising pragmatism, education, and cognitive science

  Ward, D. & Isaac, A.

  UK-based charities

  1/03/18 → 30/05/19

  Project: Research

• SpeechWave

  Renals, S. & Bell, P.

  EPSRC

  1/03/18 → 21/05/22

  Project: Research

  • Speech recognition 100%
  • Acoustics 59%
  • Speech 21%
  • Neural networks 19%
  • Computer simulation 17%

• Living organisms and their choices: a philosophical, scientific and biosemiotic investigation into the world-modelling hermeneutics of self-determining and future-oriented biological entities

  Phemister, P.

  UK-based charities

  1/03/18 → 28/06/19

  Project: Research

• Form and formalism in linguistics

  McElvenny, J. & Joseph, J. E.

  Learned Societies

  1/03/18 → 28/02/20

  Project: Research

• Charting the impact of bilingualism on development in children with and without autism spectrum disorders

  Fletcher-Watson, S. & Sorace, A.

  ESRC

  8/01/18 → 7/01/21

  Project: Research

  • autistic children 100%
  • Bilingualism 91%
  • multilingualism 80%
  • Vocabulary 31%
  • stimulus 20%