William Marslen-Wilson

Professor William D. Marslen-Wilson FBA, FAE (born 1945[1]) is a neuroscientist.

Professor

William Marslen-Wilson

FBA, FAE
OccupationNeuroscientist

Marslen-Wilson obtained his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973.[1] He subsequently worked as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.[1]

In 1977, he took up a post at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.[1] This was followed by stints at the Department of Experimental Psychology Cambridge; as Director of the MPI; as a senior scientist at the Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Unit, and as Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College, London.[1]

He returned to the Applied Psychology Unit as director from 1997 to 2010, during which time it changed name, to become the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.[1]

From 2014-2016, he sat on the editorial board of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.[2]

As of June 2017, he is Honorary Professor of Language and Cognition at the University of Cambridge.[3]

References
  1. Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2003). The MRC Applied Psychology Unit. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-088-5. Wikidata Q29581668.
  2. "William Marslen-Wilson". The Royal Society. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  3. "Professor William Marslen-Wilson, FBA — Cambridge Language Sciences". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
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