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Our primary research areas include:

Language, Cognition and Perception

This group combines interests in language and psycholinguistics with visual perception, visual cognition and motor control. Eye movement control and eye movements in the context of reading and visual world analysis are a central experimental approach in this group. Specific linguistic topics include lexical access, syntactic parsing, semantic analysis, language production and mental arithmetic. The representation of space and motion, attentional and perceptual processes, motor planning and movement control are also studied using limb and eye position tracking technologies.

Those researching this area include: Dr M. Fischer, Dr R. van Gompel, Dr Y. Kamide, Prof. A. Kennedy, Dr. Alissa Melinger, Dr W. Murray, Dr B. Tatler, Dr B. Vincent, Prof. N. Wade, Dr R. Wilton

Neuroscience and Development

This group examines issues in cognitive neuroscience: How are brain and behaviour related? We emphasise psychological processing across the lifespan, from infancy to old age. We place particular emphasis on clinical aspects of neuroscience, both from the point of view of discovering new treatments and therapies, and from the point of view of examining what disrupted processing can tell us about normal processing. There is a strong focus on the relation between brain and language processes. As a consequence, there are strong links with the Language, Perception, and Cognition group. Topics include: effects of diet in infancy on cognitive function; developmental disorders in infancy including autism; developmental dyslexia; effects of closed-head injuries on attention; EEG and behaviour; memory and aging; language and ageing, particularly changes caused by Parkinson's disease.

Those researching this area include: Dr L. Duncan, Prof. T. Harley, Dr. M. Keehner, Dr E. Nagy, Dr D. Potter, Dr. A. Schloerscheidt, Dr P. Willatts

Self and Identity

This group is concerned with a broad range of social and developmental processes, particularly as they impact upon social identity. Our work, which is broadly based methodologically, spans parent-child communication, group processes, intergroup relations, and developmental aspects of self and identity.

Those researching this area include: Dr M. Bennett, Dr N. Hopkins, Dr F. Sani, Dr. S. Zeedyk, Dr J. Ross