VWR - Module information

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Module Lecturers

The module is taught by Marielle Lange and Martin Corley.

Marielle Lange (M.Lange@ed.ac.uk)

Informatics:  Room C4, ANC Forrest Hill, tel: 503088

Psychology: Room UF36, Dept of Psychology, 7 George Square, tel: 503444.

Module webpage: http://homepages.informatics.ed.ac.uk/mlange/VWR/

Personal homepage: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlange/

Calendar: http://calendar.yahoo.co.uk/mariellelange

Times and places        Click on the arrow to go to the top of the document

This module runs during the 2d Semester, on Mondays, 16:10-18, weeks 1-5, in Room 1.07, 24 Buccleuch Pl

Tutorials: Fridays 9:30-10:50 (Jan 28 and Feb 4), in the Psychology dept (GS7), room F1 (Please note that this is a change compared to what was previously announced)


Aims and objectives        Click on the arrow to go to the top of the document

The module provides an advanced understanding of current research in Visual Word Recognition. It is open to MSc students from the "Language at Edinburgh" group of MSc programmes.


Assessment       Click on the arrow to go to the top of the document

This course is assessed by means of a 3,000-word essay. The submission deadline is Mon Feb 28 2005


Context       Click on the arrow to go to the top of the document

The module is accessible to students with no background in Psychology, although the majority of students attending the lectures and tutorials will typically have a first degree with a significant component of psychology, linguistics or cognitive science.


References       Click on the arrow to go to the top of the document

The course will draw on the following books:

Taft, M. (1991). Reading and the mental lexicon. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
A series of readings will be provided for each lecture as appropriate and lecture notes will be made available on the web.


Making up for gaps in knowledge        Click on the arrow to go to the top of the document

Below are some suggestions of extra readings to fill in knowledge gaps you may have or to increase your general knowledge of the topic. Hence, at a master level, you are expected to begin to take the initiative of your formation. Going to the lectures is expected to take only a very small portion of the time you dedicate to the module (lecture 18 hours for assignment 60 and private study 42). You are more than welcome to open some handbooks and get some knowlegde on the various lecture content BEFORE the lecture on that topic.

If you have no prior acquaintance with psycholinguistics or cognitive psychology, you should read one of these:
  • Pinker, S. (1994). The language instinct. New York: William Morrow. [brilliant book. Chapters 9, 10, 11 would be especially useful for this module] (@ amazon)

  • Harley, T. A. (2001). The Psychology of language. 2nd Edition. Psychology Press. (@ amazon)

  • Altmann, G. (1997). The ascent of babel. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Introductory Psycholinguistics book, fast and enjoyable read] (@ amazon )


© Marielle Lange (M.Lange@ed.ac.uk), Last updated January 2005