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  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Martin J. Pickering is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on psychology and neuroscience, with significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, language and linguistics, and artificial intelligence.

The main topics of Pickering's work include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning

Pickering has published extensively, with 74 publications in psychology and 37 in neuroscience. Their frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Memory and Language
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Cognition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • The head constituent plays a key role in the lexical boost in syntactic priming (2023, Journal of Memory and Language)
  • Lexical alignment is affected by addressee but not speaker nativeness (2021, Bilingualism Language and Cognition)
  • The Relation Between Preschoolers' Vocabulary Development and Their Ability to Predict and Recognize Words (2020, Child Development)
  • Prediction error boosts retention of novel words in adults but not in children (2021, Cognition)
  • Similar neural networks respond to coherence during comprehension and production of discourse (2021, Cerebral Cortex)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Pickering include:

  • Simon Garrod (15 co-authored works)
  • Holly P. Branigan (12 co-authored works)
  • Ruth E. Corps (7 co-authored works)
  • Matías Morales (6 co-authored works)
  • Tanvi Patel (6 co-authored works)

In addition to journal publications, Pickering has contributed to academic books. Notably, they have a publication with Cambridge University Press titled Understanding Dialogue, published in 2021, which has received notable citations.

Pickering was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue

    Martin J. Pickering;Simon Garrod

  • An integrated theory of language production and comprehension

    Martin J. Pickering;Simon Garrod

  • Syntactic co-ordination in dialogue

    Holly P. Branigan;Martin J. Pickering;Alexandra A. Cleland

  • The Representation of Verbs: Evidence from Syntactic Priming in Language Production

    Martin J. Pickering;Holly P. Branigan

  • Structural priming: a critical review.

    Martin J. Pickering;Victor S. Ferreira

  • Is Syntax Separate or Shared Between Languages? Cross-Linguistic Syntactic Priming in Spanish-English Bilinguals

    Robert J. Hartsuiker;Martin J. Pickering;Eline Veltkamp

  • Why is conversation so easy

    Simon Garrod;Martin J. Pickering

  • Do people use language production to make predictions during comprehension

    Martin J. Pickering;Simon Garrod

  • The use of lexical and syntactic information in language production: Evidence from the priming of noun-phrase structure

    Alexandra A. Cleland;Martin J. Pickering

  • Plausibility and the Processing of Unbounded Dependencies:An Eye-Tracking Study

    Matthew J. Traxler;Martin J. Pickering

  • Joint action, interactive alignment, and dialog.

    Simon Garrod;Martin J. Pickering

  • Sentence processing without empty categories

    Martin Pickering;Guy Barry

  • The representation of lexical and syntactic information in bilinguals: Evidence from syntactic priming

    Sofie Schoonbaert;Robert J. Hartsuiker;Martin J. Pickering

  • Predicting while comprehending language: a theory and review

    Martin J. Pickering;Chiara Gambi

  • Syntactic priming in language production

    Martin J. Pickering;Holly P. Branigan

  • Alignment as the Basis for Successful Communication

    Martin J. Pickering;Simon Garrod

  • The processing of metonymy: evidence from eye movements.

    Steven Frisson;Martin J. Pickering

  • The influence of the immediate visual context on incremental thematic role-assignment: evidence from eye-movements in depicted events.

    Pia Knoeferle;Matthew W. Crocker;Christoph Scheepers;Martin J. Pickering

  • Adjunct attachment is not a form of lexical ambiguity resolution

    Matthew J. Traxler;Matthew J. Traxler;Martin J. Pickering;Charles Clifton

  • Linguistic alignment between people and computers

    Holly P. Branigan;Martin J. Pickering;Jamie Pearson;Janet F. McLean

  • Rational Models of Cognition

    N. Chater;Matthew W. Crocker;Martin Pickering

  • The Handbook of Psycholinguistics

    Chiara Gambi;Martin Pickering

Frequent Co-Authors

Holly P. Branigan
Holly P. Branigan University of Edinburgh
Simon Garrod
Simon Garrod University of Glasgow
Matthew J. Traxler
Matthew J. Traxler University of California, Davis
Robert J. Hartsuiker
Robert J. Hartsuiker Ghent University
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Brian McElree
Brian McElree New York University
Martin Corley
Martin Corley University of Edinburgh
Mante S. Nieuwland
Mante S. Nieuwland Max Planck Society
Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York
Anthony J. Sanford
Anthony J. Sanford University of Glasgow

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