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Richard Shillcock is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within psychology and computer science, with significant contributions in areas such as experimental and cognitive psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work focuses on topics including reading and literacy development, language, metaphor and cognition, multisensory perception and integration, categorization, perception, and language. Additionally, their research covers image retrieval and classification techniques, handwritten text recognition techniques, and media, communication, and education.

Richard Shillcock has published in a variety of academic venues, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their research. Key publication venues include:

  • Cognition
  • Journal of East Asian Linguistics
  • Asian Culture and History
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Grapholinguistics and its applications

Recent publications provide insight into the areas explored by Shillcock and collaborators. These include:

  • Systematicity in language and the fast and slow creation of writing systems: Understanding two types of non-arbitrary relations between orthographic characters and their canonical pronunciation (2022, Cognition)
  • Exploring meaning-sound systematicity in Korean (2022, Journal of East Asian Linguistics)
  • Quantifying Sound-Graphic Systematicity. Application to Multiple Phonographic Orthographies (2021, Grapholinguistics and its applications)
  • Quantified Grapho-Phonemic Systematicity in Korean Hangeul (2023, Asian Culture and History)
  • Small temporal asynchronies between the two eyes in binocular reading: Crosslinguistic data and the implications for ocular prevalence (2021, Attention Perception & Psychophysics)

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Shillcock's research activity, with frequent coauthors including Hana Jee, Mónica Tamariz, Ruomeng Zhu, Mateo Obregón, and Hamutal Kreiner. These collaborations indicate a focus on multidisciplinary approaches integrating linguistics, psychology, and computer science.

The research areas and topics suggest an interest in how language systems and perception interact with neural and cognitive processes, as well as the technological methods used to analyze text and images. The balance of psychological theory alongside computational methods underlines the interdisciplinary scope of their work.

Best Publications

  • Proceedings of the fourteenth annual conference of the cognitive science society

    Richard Shillcock;G Lindsey;J Levy;N Chater

  • Teaching Talk: Strategies for Production and Assessment

    Anne Anderson;Gillian Brown;Richard Shillcock;George Yule

  • Eye Movements Reveal the On-Line Computation of Lexical Probabilities During Reading

    Scott A. McDonald;Richard C. Shillcock

  • How arbitrary is language

    Padraic Monaghan;Richard C. Shillcock;Morten H. Christiansen;Simon Kirby

  • Rethinking the word frequency effect: the neglected role of distributional information in lexical processing.

    Scott A. McDonald;Richard C. Shillcock

  • Proceedings of the twentieth annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Richard Shillcock;Padraic Monaghan

  • The recognition of words after their acoustic offsets in spontaneous speech: effects of subsequent context.

    Ellen Gurman Bard;Richard Shillcock;G. T. M. Altmann

  • Bootstrapping word boundaries: A bottom-up corpus-based approach to speech segmentation

    Paul Cairns;Richard Shillcock;Nick Chater;Joe Levy

  • Low-level predictive inference in reading: the influence of transitional probabilities on eye movements.

    Scott A. McDonald;Richard C. Shillcock

  • Eye-fixation behavior, lexical storage, and visual word recognition in a split processing model.

    Richard Shillcock;T. Mark Ellison;Padraic Monaghan

  • Slips of the tongue in the London-Lund corpus of spontaneous conversation

    Alan Garnham;Richard C. Shillcock;Gordon D. A. Brown;Andrew I. D. Mill

  • Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Yu-Ju Chou;Richard Shillcock

  • Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference of the cognitive science society

    Marcus O’Toole;Jon Oberlander;Richard Shillcock

  • An anatomically constrained, stochastic model of eye movement control in reading.

    Scott A. McDonald;R. H. S. Carpenter;Richard C. Shillcock

  • Proceedings of EUROSPEECH-1991.

    R. J. Lickley;Richard Shillcock;Ellen Gurman Bard

  • Analysis of a Chinese phonetic compound database : Implications for orthographic processing

    Janet Hui-wen Hsiao;Richard Shillcock

  • Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Richard Shillcock;Paul Cairns

  • Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    John Hicks;Jon Oberlander;Richard Shillcock

  • Cognitive models of speech processing : the Second Sperlonga Meeting

    Gerry T. M. Altmann;Richard Shillcock

  • Lexical hypotheses in continuous speech

    Richard Shillcock

  • Proceedings of the Twenty Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Janet Hui-wen Hsiao;Richard Shillcock

Frequent Co-Authors

Padraic Monaghan
Padraic Monaghan Lancaster University
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Julia Simner
Julia Simner University of Sussex
Antonella Sorace
Antonella Sorace University of Edinburgh
Michal Lavidor
Michal Lavidor Bar-Ilan University
Gerry T. M. Altmann
Gerry T. M. Altmann University of Connecticut
Martin J. Pickering
Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh
Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University
Alexander P. Leff
Alexander P. Leff University College London
Andrew W. Ellis
Andrew W. Ellis University of York

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