Martin Pickering
Martin Pickering | |
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| Born | Martin John Pickering June 2, 1966 |
| Education | City of London School[3] |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psycholinguistics[1] |
| Institutions | University of Glasgow |
| Thesis | Processing dependencies (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Elisabet Engdahl |
| Doctoral students | Andrew J. Stewart[2] |
| Website | edwebprofiles |
Martin John Pickering FBA FRSE (born 2 June 1966)[3] is a British cognitive psychologist. He is Professor of the Psychology of Language and Communication at the University of Edinburgh.[1][4][5]
Education
Pickering was privately educated at the City of London School[3] and studied psychology at Durham University, graduating with a first-class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1987.[3] He completed his PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh in 1991 supervised by Elisabet Engdahl.[6][7]
Career and research
After a period as a postdoc, he joined the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in 1995. He returned to Edinburgh as Reader in Psychology in 2000, and was promoted to Professor in 2003.[8]
Pickering describes his main research interests within the psychology of language as language production, language comprehension, dialogue, language and imagination, joint action, and bilingualism.[7] He has served as editor of the Journal of Memory and Language and in 2023 was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[9][3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007.[10]
His former doctoral students include Andrew J. Stewart.[2][11]
Selected publications
- Understanding dialogue: Language use and social interaction[9]
- Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue[12]
- Is syntax separate or shared between languages?[13]
- Structural priming: A critical review[14]
- An integrated theory of language production and comprehension[15]
- An experimental approach to linguistic representation[16]
- Predicting while comprehending language: A theory and review[17]
References
- ^ a b Martin Pickering publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b Stewart, Andrew John (1998). The Time Course of the Influence of Implicit Causality Information on Resolving Anaphors. gla.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Glasgow. OCLC 53624415. ProQuest 2164787763.
- ^ a b c d e Anon (2025). "Pickering, Prof. Martin John". Who's Who (177th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2720. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U298937. ISBN 9781399411837. OCLC 1427336388. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Martin Pickering publications from Europe PubMed Central
- ^ Martin Pickering at DBLP Bibliography Server
- ^ Pickering, Martin John (1991). Processing Dependencies. ed.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/20111. ProQuest 301518925.
- ^ a b "Martin Pickering (PhD, FBA, FRSE)". ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
- ^ Who's Who in Scotland. Ayr: Carrick Media. 2012. p. 412. ISBN 9780956574848.
- ^ a b Pickering, M. J.; Garrod, S. (2021). Understanding dialogue: Language use and social interaction (PDF). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108610728. ISBN 9781108473613.
- ^ "RSE Fellows welcomed into the British Academy in 2023 cohort". rse.org.uk. Edinburgh, Scotland: Royal Society of Edinburgh. 28 July 2023. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
- ^ Stewart, A.; Pickering, M.; Sandford, A. (2000). "The Time Course of the Influence of Implicit Causality Information: Focusing versus Integration Accounts". Journal of memory and language. 42 (3): 423–443. doi:10.1006/jmla.1999.2691.
- ^ Martin J Pickering; Simon Garrod (1 April 2004). "Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27 (2): 169-90; discussion 190-226. doi:10.1017/S0140525X04000056. ISSN 0140-525X. PMID 15595235. Wikidata Q35981843.
- ^ Hartsuiker, R. J.; Pickering, M. J.; Veltkamp, E. (2004). "Is syntax separate or shared between languages?" (PDF). Psychological Science. 15 (6): 409–414. doi:10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.0069.
- ^ Martin J Pickering; Victor S Ferreira (May 2008). "Structural priming: a critical review". Psychological Bulletin. 134 (3): 427–59. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.134.3.427. ISSN 0033-2909. PMC 2657366. PMID 18444704. Wikidata Q24656555.
- ^ Martin Pickering; Simon Garrod (24 June 2013). "An integrated theory of language production and comprehension". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 36 (4): 329–347. doi:10.1017/S0140525X12001495. ISSN 0140-525X. PMID 23789620. Wikidata Q38116038.
- ^ Holly P Branigan; Martin J Pickering (29 November 2016). "An experimental approach to linguistic representation". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 40: e282. doi:10.1017/S0140525X16002028. ISSN 0140-525X. PMID 27894378. Wikidata Q38384137.
- ^ Martin Pickering; Chiara Gambi (28 June 2018). "Predicting while comprehending language: A theory and review". Psychological Bulletin. 144 (10): 1002–1044. doi:10.1037/BUL0000158. ISSN 0033-2909. PMID 29952584. Wikidata Q64452654.