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I’m a Lecturer within the Division of Psychology and Forensic Sciences at Abertay. I completed my MA and ESRC-funded MSc and PhD in Psychology at the University of Dundee. Prior to joining Abertay in 2019, I worked on two research projects titled ‘Predicting Online Radicalisation’ (University of Bath) and ‘An Experimental Investigation of Syntactic Priming and the Lexical Boost in Language Production’ (University of Dundee).
As a cognitive psychologist, I am particularly interested in how attention is distributed during reading; or more specifically, whether we can lexically process more than one word at a time. This research has, in collaboration with Dr Wayne Murray, typically involved using eye tracking technologies to test models of eye movement control during reading.
More generally, I am also interested in the factors that influence language production. This involves further exploring the structural priming effect (i.e., the well-established finding that we are more likely to reproduce a syntactic structure we have just encountered rather than construct one anew), as well as measuring how language evolves to align with group affiliations as they develop over time.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
Wakeford, L. (Creator) & Murray, W. (Creator), University of Dundee, Jul 2020
DOI: 10.15132/10000151, https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/datasets/using-a-same-different-matching-task-to-determine-the-viability-o
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