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Madeleine Long is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh within the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. She also serves as a Principal Investigator for a four-year FRIPRO project at the University of Oslo. Her research bridges experimental pragmatics and cognitive ageing, focusing on how cognitive, linguistic, and social factors influence pragmatic competence across the lifespan.
- Key Affiliations:
- University of Edinburgh (Current)
- University of Oslo (Current PI)
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Past)
- Collaborators: Sarah MacPherson, Paula Rubio-Fernández, Hannah Rohde
Research Focus: The lifespan pragmatics program examines multimodal communication, referential strategies, and cognitive control in diverse populations, including newly sighted children and cross-linguistic comparisons. Recent work explores prosocial speech acts, contrastive inferences, and the role of psychological proximity in communication.
Scientific Contributions: Publications in Developmental Psychology, Open Mind, Cognition, and Neuropsychologia highlight her work on adaptive pragmatics, cognitive ageing, and language's efficiency in ageing communication.
- Awards & Grants:
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship
- FRIPRO Project (University of Oslo, PI)
Upcoming Engagements: Invited speaker at the 8th International Conference on Aging & Cognition (2025) and presenter at ISB15 (15th International Symposium on Bilingualism).
