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William D. Marslen-Wilson

William D. Marslen-Wilson

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Psychology

D-Index
89
Citations
32547
World Ranking
994
National Ranking
122

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

William D. Marslen-Wilson is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, psychology, and computer science. Within these fields, they focus extensively on cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and developmental and educational psychology, with additional work in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine as well as social psychology.

The main topics of William D. Marslen-Wilson's work include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neural Networks and Applications
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Topic Modeling

Recent papers authored or co-authored by William D. Marslen-Wilson include:

  • "Noradrenergic-dependent functions are associated with age-related locus coeruleus signal intensity differences," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "Age-related reduction in motor adaptation: brain structural correlates and the role of explicit memory," 2020, Neurobiology of Aging
  • "Distinct components of cardiovascular health are linked with age-related differences in cognitive abilities," 2023, Scientific Reports
  • "Decoding the Real-Time Neurobiological Properties of Incremental Semantic Interpretation," 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Finding structure during incremental speech comprehension," 2023, eLife

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Nature Communications
  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • Scientific Reports

Collaborative work features several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Lorraine K. Tyler
  • Kamen A. Tsvetanov
  • James B. Rowe
  • Rogier Kievit
  • Carol Brayne

William D. Marslen-Wilson's academic recognition includes membership in prestigious organizations such as the Academia Europaea, which they joined in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Functional parallelism in spoken word-recognition.

    William D. Marslen-Wilson

  • Processing interactions and lexical access during word recognition in continuous speech

    William D Marslen-Wilson;Alan Welsh

  • The temporal structure of spoken language understanding

    William Marslen-Wilson;Lorraine Komisarjevsky Tyler

  • Morphology and meaning in the English mental lexicon.

    William Marslen-Wilson;Lorraine K. Tyler;Rachelle Waksler;Lianne Older

  • Sentence perception as an interactive parallel process.

    William D. Marslen-Wilson

  • Integrating Form and Meaning: A Distributed Model of Speech Perception.

    M. Gareth Gaskell;William D. Marslen-Wilson

  • Making Sense of Semantic Ambiguity: Semantic Competition in Lexical Access

    Jennifer Rodd;Gareth Gaskell;William Marslen-Wilson

  • The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) study protocol: a cross-sectional, lifespan, multidisciplinary examination of healthy cognitive ageing

    Meredith A Shafto;Lorraine K Tyler;Marie Dixon;Jason R Taylor;Jason R Taylor

  • Morphological and semantic effects in visual word recognition: A time-course study

    Kathleen Rastle;Matt H. Davis;William D. Marslen-Wilson;Lorraine K. Tyler

  • The time course of visual word recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data.

    Olaf Hauk;Matthew H. Davis;M. Ford;Friedemann Pulvermüller

  • Accessing Spoken Words: The Importance of Word Onsets

    William Marslen-Wilson;Pienie Zwitserlood

  • The mental representation of lexical form: A phonological approach to the recognition lexicon

    Aditi Lahiri;William Marslen-Wilson

  • Levels of perceptual representation and process in lexical access: words, phonemes, and features.

    William Marslen-Wilson;Paul Warren

  • Accessing Different Types of Lexical Semantic Information: Evidence From Priming

    Helen E. Moss;Ruth K. Ostrin;Lorraine K. Tyler;William D. Marslen-Wilson

  • Activation, competition, and frequency in lexical access

    William Marslen-Wilson

  • Phonological variation and inference in lexical access.

    M G Gaskell;W D Marslen-Wilson

  • The On-Line Effects of Semantic Context on Syntactic Processing

    Lorraine K. Tyler;William D. Marslen-Wilson

  • Memory for remote events in anterograde amnesia: Recognition of public figures from newsphotographs.

    William D. Marslen-Wilson;Hans-Lukas Teuber

  • Rules, representations, and the English past tense

    William Marslen-Wilson;Lorraine K Tyler

  • Dissociating types of mental computation

    William D. Marslen-Wilson;Lorraine K. Tyler

  • Preserving Syntactic Processing across the Adult Life Span: The Modulation of the Frontotemporal Language System in the Context of Age-Related Atrophy

    Lorraine K. Tyler;Meredith A. Shafto;Billi Randall;Paul Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorraine K. Tyler
Lorraine K. Tyler University of Cambridge
Matthew H. Davis
Matthew H. Davis University of Cambridge
Xiaolin Zhou
Xiaolin Zhou Peking University
M. Gareth Gaskell
M. Gareth Gaskell University of York
Friedemann Pulvermüller
Friedemann Pulvermüller Freie Universität Berlin
Yury Shtyrov
Yury Shtyrov Aarhus University
Jennifer M. Rodd
Jennifer M. Rodd University College London
Tim Dalgleish
Tim Dalgleish University of Cambridge
Colin M. Brown
Colin M. Brown Max Planck Society
Dennis Norris
Dennis Norris University of Cambridge

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