Introduction to Psychology Language Research

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Introduction to Psychology Language Research
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Dr Lucy Cragg

• Relationship between language cognitive
  control. E.G. the relationship between verbal
  ability and working memory (with Kate Nation)

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Dr Sandra Quinn

• Relationship between musical processing and
  language and literacy acquisition

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Dr Nikki Pitchford

• Language literacy acquisition disorders
• Language and literacy acquisition following
  unilateral left and right hemisphere stroke in
  childhood (with Elaine Funnell)
• Early language processing in preschool children
  born very preterm (with Neil Marlow, Sam Johnson,
  Gaia Scerif)
• Literacy disorders following cerebellar tumour
  sustained during early childhood (with PhD
  student Emma Davis co-supervised by David
  Walker CBTR grant)
• Neural basis of deep dyslexia in adulthood (with
  Elaine Funnell, Paul Morgan, Bianca de Haan)
• Using ICT to support early literacy development
  (with PhD student Arjette Karemaker
  co-supervised with Claire OMalley ESRC Case
  studentship with Crick Software)

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Dr Nikki Pitchford

• Letter position encoding
• Perceptual processes involved with letter
  identification and position encoding (with PhD
  student Joanna Wagstaffe)
• Sensitivity to orthographic structure in skilled
  and dyslexic readers of English (with Tim
  Ledgeway Jackie Masterson)
• Influence of orthographic transparency with
  skilled and developing readers of Greek and
  English (with PhD student Maria Ktori)
• New research paradigms to investigate perceptual
  processes involved with letter identification and
  position encoding (with Tim Ledgeway Roger
  Watt)

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Dr Nikki Pitchford

• Colour term acquisition
• Postdoc research on factors influencing the
  developmental acquisition of colour terms (with
  Kathy Mullen)
• Acquisition of colour terms in relation to
  dimensional adjectives (with Kathy Mullen)
• Colour preference in relation to colour term
  acquisition in toddlers (with Emma Davis and Gaia
  Scerif)
• Colour preference in infancy and its relation to
  colour term acquisition (with Anna Franklin and
  colleagues)

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Dr Nikki Pitchford

• Early naming food preferences
• Link between early naming of and preference for
  food items (with PhD student Joanne Pybis
  co-supervisor Ellen Townsend ESRC Case PhD
  studnetship with Nutricia Babyfood Ltd).

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Dr Walter van Heuven

• Research Interests
• Language processing in bilinguals and
  multilinguals (e.g., interlingual homographs,
  homophones, pronoun processing, word translation)
  (RTs, eye tracking)
• Chinese-English bilinguals, Dutch-English
  bilinguals, trilinguals
• The bilingual brain
• e.g., language conflict and control (fMRI, ERP)
• Computational modelling
• e.g., models of bilingual language processing
• Development of orthographic processing (e.g.,
  Greek-English)
• Letter position coding
• Chinese word processing (e.g., morphological
  processing)

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Dr Walter van Heuven

• Research Interests
• Language processing in monolinguals, bilinguals
  and multilinguals (e.g., interlingual homographs,
  homophones, pronoun processing, word translation)
  (RTs, Eye Tracking, ERP, fMRI)
• Chinese-English bilinguals, Dutch-English
  bilinguals, trilinguals
• The Bilingual Brain
• e.g., language conflict and control (fMRI, ERP)
• Computational Modelling
• e.g., models of bilingual language processing
  (BIA), models of orthographic processing (open
  bigram model), models of Stroop, models of
  pronoun resolution
• Development of orthographic processing (e.g.,
  Greek-English)
• Orthographic processing (masked priming)
• Letter position coding
• Bilingual and Trilingual Stroop
• Chinese word processing (e.g., morphological
  processing)

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Collaboration

• Kathy Conklin (English Studies)
• Nikki Pitchford (Psychology)
• Margaret Gillon Dowens (UNNC)
• Richard Pemberton (Education)
• Ton Dijkstra (Radboud University Nijmegen, the
  Netherlands)
• Taomei Guo (Beijing Normal University, China)
• ChinLung Yang (University of Hong Kong, Hong
  Kong)
• Jonathan Grainger (University de Provence,
  France)

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Current Students

• Taoli Zhang
• Morphological processing in Chinese-English
  bilinguals
• co-supervisor Kathy Conklin
• Emily Coderre
• Time course of the Stroop effect in bilinguals
• co-supervisor Kathy Conklin
• Other students (co-supervisor)
• Anna Siyanova processing of binominals
  (supervisor Kathy Conklin)
• Alice Doherty pronoun processing (supervisor
  Kathy Conklin)
• Maria Ktori orthographic transparency in Greek
  and English (supervisor Nikki Pitchford)
• Voilet Yang task-switching (supervisor Georgina
  Jackson)
• Arturo Martinez Gracida (supervisor Geoff
  Underwood)