Research output per year
Research output per year
School of Life & Health Sciences, Aston University, Aston Triangle
B4 7ET Birmingham
United Kingdom
My broad research interest is in Cognitive Psychology and I specialise in Child Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, and Visual Object Recognition.
The common theme of my research is to examine the human capacity for generalization and the representations needed to support this (e.g., analogy-based or rule-based generalization). For example, in my PhD research (University of Manchester), I examined how children learn to generalize verbs from one linguistic structure to another (e.g., the ball rolled →the man rolled the ball). In my post-doctoral research position at the University of Bristol (which I undertook before joining Aston University), I examined how the human visual system manages to generalize recognition of objects to new contexts (e.g., how do we recognise a new object despite variations in image size, orientation, illumination and position in the visual field?).
To investigate these areas, my research has employed a number of experimental paradigms, including priming, eyetracking, Event Related Potentials (ERP), grammaticality judgements, elicited production, and computational modelling.
2021 – Present: Teaching Associate in Psychology, Aston University
2017 – 2021: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Bristol
2016 – 2017: Lecturer in Psycholinguistics, University of Essex (1 year, fixed-term)
2017: PhD Psychology, University of Manchester.
2022: PG Cert Fellowship in Higher Education (Distinction).
PhD, Psychology, University of Manchester
Award Date: 1 Jul 2017
Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter, comment/opinion or interview › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review