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

  Translating cognitive and brain science in the laboratory and field to language learning environment

  Kroll, J., Dussias, P., Lipski, J., van Hell, J. & Sorace, A.

  1/04/16 → 31/10/21

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • learning 100%
  • life-span 59%
  • neurosciences 58%
  • Social Environment 54%
  • Latin America 49%

• User Generated Dialogue System: uDialogue

  Renals, S. & Yamagishi, J.

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/04/16 → 31/03/17

  Project: Research

  • Recurrent neural networks 100%
  • Speech enhancement 59%
  • Speech synthesis 58%
  • Deep neural networks 46%
  • Acoustics 13%

• Conference: Reading Plato with the Ancients (Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic Commentaries on Plato’s Timaeus).

  Kupreeva, I.

  1/04/16 → 3/04/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Hellenistic Period 100%
  • Plato 44%

• PPLS Pilot Scheme : The influence of deliberative and affective decision-making processes on the Scottish referendum in healthy aging

  MacPherson, S. E.

  1/03/16 → 31/07/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • referendum 100%
  • decision-making process 86%

• PPLS Pilot Scheme : The role of prediction in language processing and in mathematical cognition

  Doumas, L.

  1/03/16 → 1/08/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Language 100%
  • Cognition 85%
  • Linguistics 80%
  • Brain 8%

• Philip Leverhulme Prize

  Loughnan, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/03/16 → 28/02/22

  Project: Research

  • Aggression 100%
  • Dehumanization 85%
  • Rape 68%
  • Video Games 63%
  • Love 63%

• Preaspiration in North Germanic: internal variation and language history

  Iosad, P.

  UK-based charities

  1/03/16 → 28/02/17

  Project: Research

• JEA017 - ESRC Impact Accelerator Grant : Improving Later Life - Health Cognitive Ageing

  Deary, I. & Morton, R.

  1/03/16 → 28/02/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • health 100%

• PPLS Pilot Scheme : Dissociating effects of attention and emotion on perception using visual crowding

  Podhortzer Carmel, D.

  1/02/16 → 1/12/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Translinguistic apposition in a multilingual media blog in Rwanda

  Gafaranga, J.

  1/02/16 → 4/03/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Blogs 100%

• SUMMA - Scalable Understanding of Mulitingual Media

  Renals, S., Birch-Mayne, A. & Cohen, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/02/16 → 31/01/19

  Project: Research

  • Acoustics 100%
  • Transcription 90%
  • Speech recognition 86%
  • Semantics 60%
  • Acoustic Model 56%

• PPLS Pilot Scheme : Picture-word interference: Articulatory evidence from ultrasound

  Corley, M.

  18/01/16 → 24/06/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• PPLS Pilot Scheme : Bilingual First Language Acquisition: Effects of dominance on morphosyntax, vocabulary and working memory in simultaneous bilingual children

  Chondrogianni, V.

  15/01/16 → 31/07/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Vocabulary 100%
  • Short-Term Memory 75%
  • Language 63%
  • Child 35%

• PPLS Pilot Project: Bilingualism First Language Acquisition: Effects of dominance on morphosyntax, vocabulary and working memory in simultaneous bilingual children

  Chondrogianni, V.

  15/01/16 → 24/06/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Multilingualism 100%
  • Vocabulary 79%
  • Short-Term Memory 60%
  • Language 50%
  • Child 27%

• A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English

  Alcorn, R. & Truswell, R.

  Learned Societies

  1/01/16 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

  • linguistics 100%
  • Early Middle English 76%
  • Linguistic Atlas 75%
  • Medieval England 65%
  • Hunting 65%

• Invited Research Visit to Kumamoto Sanctuary, Japan

  Weiss, A.

  UK-based charities

  1/01/16 → 31/01/16

  Project: Research

• Diaphora: Philosophical Problems, Resilience and Persistent Disagreement

  Pritchard, D.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/16 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

  • Epistemology 100%
  • Radical Scepticism 66%
  • Virtue Epistemology 50%
  • Luck 48%
  • Intellectual Humility 47%

• Emergence and Dynamics of Linguistic Rules Across Complex Populations

  Cuskley, C. & Kirby, S.

  Learned Societies

  1/01/16 → 31/01/20

  Project: Research

  • Synesthesia 100%
  • Categorical Perception 94%
  • Synaesthesia 78%
  • Color 50%
  • Choice of Colours 22%

• Perspectival Realism. Science, Knowledge, and Truth from a Human Vantage Point.

  Massimi, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/16 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

  • Perspectivism 100%
  • Realism 94%
  • Immanuel Kant 87%
  • Scientific Knowledge 39%
  • Realist 33%

• Whole Truth: Logical and Metaphysical Aspects of Totality

  Smith, M.

  Other

  1/01/16 → 30/11/17

  Project: Research

  • Justification 100%
  • Epistemic Justification 70%
  • Philosophical Studies 69%
  • Coins 64%
  • Lottery 57%

• Emotions First: Feeling reason: the role of emotions in reasoning

  Candiotto, L. & Scaltsas, D.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/16 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

  • Alcibiades 100%
  • Eros 77%
  • Socrates 69%
  • Shame 59%
  • shame 59%

• Philosophy, Science and Religion Online

  Pritchard, D., Harris, M. & Stapleton, M.

  Non-EU-based charities

  1/01/16 → 30/09/18

  Project: Research

  • Epistemology 100%
  • Intellectual Humility 68%
  • Hinge 44%
  • Epistemic Peers 35%
  • Religious Epistemology 33%

• Publication of Archelogos Argument Analyses of Plato’s and Aristotle’s works

  Scaltsas, D.

  15/12/15 → 15/07/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Biobehavioral Health in Urban Settings Today (RoBUST)

  Stanton, S.

  1/12/15 → 30/11/16

  Project: Project from a former institution

  • Urban Health 100%

• PPLS Pilot Scheme : Processing of complex structures in typically developing monolingual and bilingual children using eye-tracking

  Chondrogianni, V.

  20/11/15 → 31/08/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Heritage Language 100%
  • syntax 54%
  • Syntax 45%
  • discourse 35%
  • Discourse 25%

• Challenge Investment Fund

  Bates, T.

  15/11/15 → 1/06/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • resilience 100%

• RSE Travel assistance grant

  Smith, K.

  10/11/15 → 16/11/15

  Project: Other (Non-Funded/Miscellaneous)

  • travel 100%
  • assistance 84%
  • applicant 53%
  • grant 47%
  • money 45%

• Looking at the development of Differential Case Marking (DCM)

  Culbertson, J. & Smith, K.

  UK-based charities

  3/11/15 → 30/09/17

  Project: Research

• PPLS Pilot Scheme : Retrieval orientation and memory control: a pilot EEG study

  Morcom, A.

  2/11/15 → 2/05/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Electroencephalography 100%
  • Memory 86%

• Suor Orsola Benincasa University: International Post-Graduate Programme in Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.

  Della Sala, S.

  1/11/15 → 1/11/19

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • experimental psychology 100%
  • Euro 81%
  • neurosciences 74%
  • Italy 60%
  • funding 51%

• Magical Thinking: the history and theory of magic

  Lamont, P.

  AHRC

  1/11/15 → 28/02/17

  Project: Research

  • Secret History 100%
  • True Story 89%
  • Magic 63%
  • Art 36%
  • Trick 31%

• PPLS Pilot Project: Peri-personal space in lower limbs amputees

  Gherri, E.

  1/11/15 → 31/05/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• PPLS Pilot Scheme : Linguistic Attitudes among Tour Guides in Edinburgh

  Hall-Lew, L.

  16/10/15 → 16/10/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • linguistics 100%
  • Tourism industry 93%
  • commodity 73%
  • tourist 70%
  • customer 66%

• PPLS Pilot Scheme : Cue competition, salience, and staging in noun class learning

  Culbertson, J.

  15/10/15 → 31/07/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Noun Class 100%
  • staging 80%
  • phonology 76%
  • Semantics 68%
  • Phonology 67%

• PPLS Pilot Scheme : Processing of demonstratives and other anaphoric expressions

  Sturt, P.

  5/10/15 → 5/06/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Reference Resolution 100%
  • Eye tracking 94%
  • Referring Expressions 83%
  • Narrative Discourse 78%
  • Sentence Completion 60%

• Spousal genetic and phenotypic similarity

  Luciano, M.

  1/10/15 → 30/09/17

  Project: Research

• Epigenetics: Environment, Embodiment and Equality (E4)

  Deary, I.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/15 → 30/06/19

  Project: Research

• Probing the neural mechanisms supporting coherent speech production with fMRI

  Hoffman, P.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/15 → 1/07/16

  Project: Research

  • Communication 100%
  • activation 87%
  • Reduction 49%
  • cortexes 36%
  • Prefrontal Cortex 28%

• Genetic and social causes of life chances: New perspectives on pathways connecting the genome to social outcomes

  Johnson, W.

  Non-EU other

  1/10/15 → 31/07/16

  Project: Research

• RSE International Exchange Programme- Dr Filip Smolik

  Skarabela, B.

  27/09/15 → 6/10/15

  Project: Other (Non-Funded/Miscellaneous)

  • program 100%

• Alzheimer's Society: Short-term memory binding: validity as a cognitive biomarker across cultures and nations.

  Parra, M. & Della Sala, S.

  4/09/15 → 3/09/17

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • Short-Term Memory 100%
  • Biomarkers 69%

• Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow

  Mason, E.

  1/09/15 → 30/06/16

  Project: Awarded Facility Time

• Multi-domain speech recognition

  Renals, S.

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/09/15 → 28/02/19

  Project: Research

  • Acoustics 100%
  • Neural networks 45%
  • Speech recognition 40%
  • Transcription 37%
  • Acoustic noise 34%

• MIUR - Clinical Health Care Research: Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of three memory tests for early Alzheimer’s Disease.

  Della Sala, S.

  1/09/15 → 1/09/18

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • Health Services Research 100%
  • Alzheimer Disease 68%
  • Memory 64%

• Building Bridges Between University of Edinburgh Schools

  Auyeung, B.

  1/09/15 → 31/08/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • applicant 100%
  • networking 92%
  • funding 73%

• IASH Award: Philosophy of the Natural and Human Sciences

  Massimi, M.

  1/09/15 → 31/08/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Human Sciences 100%
  • Natural Science 85%
  • Philosophy 81%

• How do peripheral and central vascular markers relate to cognitive decline? (Project 8)

  Deary, I.

  UK-based charities

  10/08/15 → 31/08/17

  Project: Research

  • White Matter 100%
  • Brain 89%
  • Intelligence 77%
  • dementia 73%
  • brain 69%

• The fate of the native language in second language learning

  Kroll, J. & Sorace, A.

  1/08/15 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • costs 100%
  • performance 81%
  • resources 76%
  • learning 60%

• Clinical and Technical Evaluation of Tablet Application to Assist the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

  Della Sala, S., Logie, P. & Parra, M.

  MRC

  1/08/15 → 31/05/16

  Project: Research

• Up or down? Resolving agreement in copular sentences

  Heycock, C.

  Learned Societies

  1/08/15 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

  • Nominative 100%
  • Icelandic 83%
  • Person Agreement 57%
  • human being 48%
  • Person 45%