Dr Robin Campbell

I’m a Lecturer in Psychology.

I'm also interested in the history and psychology of art, particularly of drawing, in British mountaineering history, and in scientific approaches to the study of dreams and dreaming.

Other Interests

Mountaineering, early English watercolour and the music of Thelonious Monk and Jessica Williams all come high.
Here are some habitual links:

• The Scottish Mountaineering Club Home Page
• The Tate Gallery Collections Site
• The Thelonious Monk Website
• Jessica Williams, Pianist, Composer | Red and Blue Records

My main research interests cover the ground traditionally described as the mental development of the young child. In more concrete terms, this amounts to the development of language and other representational systems such as drawing and number and, of course, the development of thought itself and the attentional systems that guide and control all of these activities

Responsibilities for teaching and research in Developmental Psychology.

Here are some papers I’ve written that I’m not ashamed of.

The Study of Language Acquisition. (with Roger J. Wales, 1970)
[In J. Lyons, ed. New Horizons in Linguistics, 242-60. Penguin Books]
Propositions and early utterances. 1976
[In G. Drachman, ed. Salzburger Beitrage zur Linguistik II, 247-259. Gunther Narr, Tübingen]
Language acquisition, psychological dualism and the definition of pragmatics. 1981.
[In H. Parret, M. Sbisa & J. Verschueren eds. Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics, 93-105. John Benjamins]
Royal Investigations of the Origins of Language. (with Robert Grieve, 1982)
[Historiographica Linguistica, IX(1/2), 43-75]
The Relationship between Production and Comprehension, and its Ontogenesis. (with Terry Macdonald and Julie Dockrell, 1982)
[In Lowenthal, F., F. Vandamme & J. Cordier (eds.) Language and Language Acquisition, pp. 141-150. Plenum Press.]
On Fodor on cognitive development. 1982.
[In B. de Gelder, ed. Knowledge and Representation, 14-26. Routledge]
Text and Context in Early Language Comprehension. (with Terry C. Bowe-Macdonald, 1983) pdf
[In M.C. Donaldson, R. Grieve & C. Pratt eds. Early Childhood Development and Education, 115-126. Blackwell]
Language acquisition and cognition. 1986.
[In P. Fletcher & M. Garman, eds. Language Acquisition, 30-48. Cambridge UP]
On Innateness: nec rasa est, nec omnia tenet. 1988. pdf
[Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 9:1-12]
Children’s Thinking. (with David R. Olson, 1990)
[In R. Grieve & M. Hughes, eds. Understanding Children, 189-209. Blackwell]
Categorization, Early Concepts and First Language Acquisition. 1994.
[In R. Asher & J.M.Y. Simpson, eds. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 4:1899-1904. Pergamon]
Semantic Development of Adjectives. 1996.
[In W.J.M. Levelt, ed. Advanced Psycholinguistics, 60-67. MPI Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen]
Content and the Representation of Belief and Desire. 2000.
[In Janet W. Astington (ed.) Minds in the making: essays in honor of David R. Olson, pp. 165-176. Blackwell Books]