Dr Tom Beesley
Senior LecturerLanguage and Cognition, Neuroscience and Neurocognition
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Cognitive Psychology
Research Activity
We conduct research into the fundamental processes behind human cognition, including reading, language comprehension, learning and long-term memory, working-memory, and visual attention. As well as its academic significance, our work has real-world impact, from informing educational practice to helping to tackle misunderstanding about climate science. To explore cognitive processes, we have the capacity to use state of the art technology in our dedicated research laboratories, such as high-resolution eye-tracking, EEG, and virtual reality. Members of our research group actively collaborate across the other research groups within the department, to understand the cognitive processes within social, developmental, and neuroscientific contexts.
Members
Professor John Towse
ProfessorCyber Security Research Centre (Psychology), Language and Cognition, Security Lancaster, Security Lancaster (Academic Centre of Excellence), Security Lancaster (Behavioural Science)
Professor Padraic Monaghan
ProfessorDevelopmental Research Group, Language and Cognition, Language Learning Research Lab
Professor Kate Cain
Distinguished ProfessorDSI - Society, Language and Cognition
Dr Francesca Citron
Senior LecturerLanguage and Cognition, Neuroscience and Neurocognition
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Dr Katie Alcock
Senior LecturerDevelopmental Research Group, Language and Cognition
Dr Amy Atkinson
Lecturer in Developmental PsychologyDevelopmental Research Group
News
The latest news from our research group
ESRC New Investigator Award
Congratulations to Dr Amy Atkinson who was awarded an ESRC New Investigator grant. The grant will use existing data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to investigate the relationship between working memory in children and adults and various real-world outcomes (e.g. academic achievement, employment outcomes).
Award for Research Impact
Professor Kate Cain has been awarded the Staff Award in the Research Impact category for her outstanding work on reading and listening comprehension which has informed public policy and national and international practice in the teaching of reading and diagnosis and remediation of reading disorders.
New editorial position
Dr Francesca Citron has joined the journal Language and Cognition as a general editor from 1 June 2023.
ESRC Grant
Dr Tom Beesley has been awarded an ESRC research grant: “Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns: Coping with Different States of Uncertainty in a Changing World”. This project will focus on how different uncertain situations affect learning and the way attention is distributed to information in the environment.