EPS Mid-Career Award Winners

Word Meanings: Are they accessed or constructed?
Jennifer Rodd, University College London
University of Lancaster, April 2025

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Prediction, plasticity, and prioritisation.
Mike Le Pelley, University of New South Wales, Australia
University College London, January 2025

The enduring importance of the ‘Fine Cuts’ approach to psychology.
Geoffrey Bird, University of Oxford
University College London, January 2024

Plasticity in language processing, 24/7.
Gareth Gaskell, University of York
Swansea University, July 2023

Becoming a reader.
Kate Nation, University of Oxford
Keele University, March 2022

Amnesia in healthy people via hippocampal inhibition: A new forgetting mechanism.
Michael Anderson, University of Cambridge
EPS Online, January 2022

Activation and disruption of a neural network for making novel decisions.
Matthew Rushworth, University of Oxford
EPS Online, April 2020

New and old ideas about the neural basis of semantic cognition.
Matthew Lambon Ralph, University of Cambridge
University College London, January 2019

Neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memory.
Neil Burgess, University College London
University of Leicester, April 2018

Writing systems, reading and language.
Kathy Rastle, Royal Holloway University of London
University of Reading, July 2017

The causes and consequences of typical and atypical working memory development.
Christopher Jarrold, University of Bristol
University College London, January 2016

Producing and comprehending language in monologue and dialogue.
Martin Pickering, University of Edinburgh
University of Leeds, April 2015

Top-down control in visual attention.
Martin Eimer, Birkbeck College University of London
University of Kent, April 2014

Ways of Thinking: From crows to children and back again.
Nicola Clayton, University of Cambridge
Lancaster University, April 2013

To load or not to load? The role of load attention, perception and memory.
Nilli Lavie, University College London
University College London, January 2013

Understanding face recognition: Are we nearly there yet?
Mike Burton, University of Aberdeen
University College London, January 2012

Are there multiple memory systems? Tests of models of implicit and explicit memory.
David Shanks, University College London
University of Oxford, April 2011

Understanding the “social brain”: A developmental cognitive neuroscience.
Mark Johnson, Birkbeck University of London
Joint meeting with SEPEX, University of Granada, April 2010

Simulation of another person’s behaviour: Effects on object and person attributes.
Steve Tipper, University of North Wales
University of Leicester, April 2009

Seeing the future: Natural image sequences produce anticipatory neuronal activity.
David Perrett, University of St Andrews
University of Cambridge, April 2008

Understanding anterograde amnesia: Disconnections and hidden lesions.
John Aggleton, Cardiff University
Joint meeting with Belgian Association of Psychological Science, Cardiff University, April 2007

Selective attention, multisensory integration and spatial neglect.
Jon Driver, University College London
University College London, January 2006

Developmental cognitive genetics: How psychology can inform genetics and
vice versa.

Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford
Joint Meeting with Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Montreal, July 2005

Attention in the brain.
John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Lancaster University, July 2004