Introduction to Psychology Language Research

1. Introduction to Psychology Language Research

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

3. Dr Sandra Quinn Relationship between musical processing and language and literacy acquisition

4. 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 O’Malley; ESRC Case studentship with Crick Software)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. 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).

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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)