L+PLUS Lab

Laurie runs the meetings and keeps an eye on the lab. She has been accused of being a 'vicious' editor of drafts, has been known to agree to too many projects, and generally gives out too much work.

With her background in translation, Fiona approaches language processing and bilingualism from a novel angle. It is rumoured she speaks at least 15 unrelated languages.

Researching gendered language use and stereotypes in Mandarin Chinese, Xiaoduan's interests span psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. She can be counted on to remind her lab-mates reading can be more 'radical' than we might think.

The first lab member to tackle multimodal processing, Anu's research looks at how subtitles are processed by dyslexic readers. Her growing expertise also includes the generation of uncanny avatars.

PhD: A matter of memory? Sentence comprehension in healthy aging (2022)

Find him now in Purdue's Aphasia Research Laboratory

PhD: L2 processing of English relative clauses and long-distance wh-dependencies: evidence from L1-French and L1-Persian speakers (2023)

Now a part of the University of Friborg's ABCCD Lab

PhD: Did I hear that right? The impact of bilingual experience on spoken word recognition (2024)

Find her in Northwestern's Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Lab

PhD: Lexical Processing and Executive Function in Bilingual Children with and without Language Disorder (2024)

Now working with children with Autism at Reading's Sensational Lab

PhD: Event Numeration in Situation Model Construction (2024)