Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, School of: Recent submissions
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Longitudinal depression trajectories: the persistence of depression symptomology and their genetic & environmental underpinnings from mid- to later-life
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-04)The work contained within this thesis primarily focused on estimating depression symptom score trajectories in mid- to late-life. There has been little consistency in the literature concerning such phenotypic trajectories, ... -
Temporal structure of the world
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-06)The thesis starts from the position of Ontic Structural Realism, which holds that the world just is structure, and from the ontology of Rainforest Realism in which the only things that exist are (Dennettian) real ... -
Development and processing of non-canonical word orders in Mandarin-speaking children
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-06)BACKGROUND: Cross-linguistically, syntactic structures bearing a word order different than the basic (canonical) word order in the specific language, i.e., non-canonical structures, have been shown to be more difficult ... -
Decision-making and memory: an investigation on the recollection of a moral dilemma
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-06)Individuals inevitably face situations where they have to choose between several options with uncertain future outcomes. This decision-making process can occur in various contexts such as getting the COVID vaccine, ... -
Role of transparency in the acquisition of inflectional morphology: experimental studies testing exponence type using artificial language learning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-09)Agglutinating morphology has often been described as easier to learn than fusional morphology, in large part because it is more transparent (e.g., Brown, 1976; Goldschneider & DeKeyser, 2001; Igartua, 2015). Such claims ... -
Reporting racism in the public domain
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)Semantic parsing is the task of translating natural language utterances onto machineinterpretable programs, which can be executed against a real-world environment to obtain desired responses (e.g., a SQL query against a ... -
Every body’s gotta eat: why autonomous systems can’t live on prediction-error minimization alone
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-29)Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle has been proposed as a definition of existence from which “everything of interest about life and the universe can be derived” (Friston, 2019, p.176). Despite pretensions to a theory of ... -
Bilingual encoding strategies during the production of motion event utterances
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-28)When describing motion events, English speakers tend to encode the manner of motion in the verb (e.g., A penguin is skiing into an igloo), whereas Spanish speakers tend to express the path or trajectory of motion in the ... -
Radical pluralist theory of well-being: towards a new pluralist conception of welfare
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-28)The philosophy of well-being has generally assumed that only a weak form of pluralism could be true about prudential value: one which posits a plurality of constituents of well-being. The main exponent of theories ... -
Rate of forgetting is independent from initial degree of learning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-28)Research on forgetting has extensively explored factors that modify the rate at which information is forgotten. However, the question of whether initial degree of retention influences the rates of forgetting has been ... -
Disability and sociophonetic variation among deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers of Taiwan Mandarin
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-16)Variationist sociolinguistics has not paid much attention to linguistically pathologised groups. This thesis studies pathologised speech from a third-wave variationist perspective, exploring how oral deaf or hard-of-hearing ... -
Structural priming in the grammatical network: A study of English argument structure constructions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-14)Recent cognitive-linguistic approaches view grammar as a mental network of stored knowledge. The present study investigates to what extent psycholinguistic evidence from structural priming can inform one of the crucial ... -
Computational modelling of social cognition and behaviour
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-08)Philosophers have always been interested in asking moral questions, but social scientists have generally been more occupied with asking questions about morality. How do people differ with regards to their morality? How ... -
Exploring frailty and cognitive functioning trajectories in later life
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-25)Understanding the ageing process in later life is a crucial step in identifying those at highest risk of health decline, and in implementing effective prevention and treatment strategies. However, measuring the ageing ... -
Investigation of the associations between intelligence in youth and a range of physical health, mental health, and health behaviour outcomes in childhood, adolescence, and middle age
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Shape of subjectivity: an active inference approach to consciousness and altered self-experience
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)How should we understand the place of the mind in the natural world? Can the relationship between the contents of consciousness and the underlying mechanisms be identified? This thesis approaches the question of consciousness ... -
Socratic challenge: reinventing Socratic irony's educational character
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-08-27)Irony is commonly defined as ‘the use of words that say the opposite of what you really mean, often as a joke and with a tone of voice that shows this’ (Oxford, 2000). Expanding the term’s focus from being merely linguistic ... -
Neuropsychiatric disorders in motor neurone disease kindreds: clinical and subclinical symptoms and their relationship with cognition and behaviour
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-08-27)BACKGROUND: Motor neurone disease (MND), of which amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common, and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) occur on a spectrum, overlapping clinically, pathologically and genetically. Family ... -
How language adapts to the environment: an evolutionary, experimental approach
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The aim of this thesis is to investigate experimentally whether cross-linguistic variation in the structure of languages can be motivated by their external environment. It has been suggested that variation does not only ...
