My main research focuses on two areas:

Language comprehension - my work in this area aims to understand, for instance, how we rapidly and accurately understand the meanings of words we read/hear.

Language learning - my work in this area aims to understand, for instance, how we learn new words or new meanings for words we already know.

I seek converging evidence from behavioural (e.g., eye-tracking, artificial language paradigms) and cognitive neuroscience methods (e.g., EEG).

I am currently interested in:

• Processing of semantically rich words and words that have multiple interpretations
• Contribution of language skills to educational attainment
• Interpretation of quantifiers
• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cognitive function and wellbeing
• Graduate employability skills 

EEG/ERP, eye-tracking, web-based experiments, mixed-effects modelling, reaction-time distributional analysis, R, Qualtrics, Gorilla

The goal of my research is to understand how the language system works in adults. As this research continues I aim to identify what things might go wrong and how to improve comprehension skills in children who may read fluently but struggle to understand the meaning of what they read.

• Local schools & education authorities
• Organisations/initiatives concerned with language & literacy
• Speech & language therapists

I contribute to a range of modules but mainly teach:

• Cognition
• Introductory psychology
• Research methods
• Statistics