Our advisory board

Dr. Ed Silson - Reader at the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Science at the University of Edinburgh, working in the field of visual cognitive neuroscience. Ed’s lab seeks to understand the neural mechanisms underpinning visual perception and memory and how these are functionally organised and intertwined in the human brain. His work uses a diverse set of neuroimaging and neurostimulation techniques, including fMRI, EEG and TMS.

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Dr. Matti Wilks - Reader at the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, leads the Altruistic Minds Lab, uses approaches in social and developmental psychology to understand morality. Matti works on topics related to moral circle expansion, unusually altruistic groups, effective altruism, artificial intelligence, attitudes towards food technology/cultured meat, and why we think natural things are good.

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Dr. Joanna Demaree-Cotton - Senior Research Fellow at the Uehiro Oxford Institute at the University of Oxford, leads the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab, uses interdisciplinary methods from analytic philosophy and empirical psychology to investigate the psychological underpinnings of moral judgments, moral concepts and moral agency, and explores implications of empirical studies for normative questions in philosophical ethics.

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Dr. Ruth Corps - Early Career Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Sheffield. Before that, she held positions at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that support turn-taking during conversation and their disruption in different populations experiencing communication difficulty (e.g., people with hearing loss).

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Dr. Naomi Nota - A cognitive science postdoctoral research associate in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Naomi is currently investigating how language prediction is affected by cognitive load, noise, and hearing impairment. Previously, she was a PhD candidate in the Communication in Social Interaction group based at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics/Donders Centre for Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University (NL), where she studied how visual bodily signals contribute to language processing. Additionally, Naomi has worked on sentence reading in bilingual children.