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

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

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. In 1977, he took up a post at the

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. 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

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, and as Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College, London. He returned to the Applied Psychology Unit as director from 1997 to 2010, during which time it changed name, to become the

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. From 2014-2016, he sat on the editorial board of the journal ''

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''. As of June 2017, he is Honorary Professor of Language and Cognition at the

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* * 1945 births Place of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the British Academy British neuroscientists Living people Fellows of the Academy of Experts Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge Max Planck Institute directors {{UK-scientist-stub