MSc Psychology of Language

The University of Edinburgh

This unique programme offers an opportunity for intensive advanced training in the psychology of language focusing on the mental representations and processes that underlie human language use.Key research areasBuilding on the research methods training, you will take topical courses related to the core research areas of our department including theoretical and methodological aspects of the psychology of language.Your MSc culminates in a research dissertation in a core research area, an original, publication-quality piece of research, undertaken in close collaboration with researchers in the relevant group.The teaching and supervision are conducted by internationally recognised researchers from our Language, Cognition and Communication Research Group, one of the largest collections of natural language researchers in Europe, with links to:computer scientistsneuroscientistslinguistsphilosophersThe group’s expertise covers the broad scope of psycholinguistics, with connections to other areas of social and cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Members use a wide range of experimental, observational, computational, and neuroscience methods.

University of Edinburgh