Overview

I am a second year PhD student in Cognitve Psychology at the University of Exeter working under the supervision of Prof. Aureliu Lavric, Prof. Stephen Monsell and Dr. Heike Elchlepp. I was awarded a +3 studentship from the ESRC to investigate the role of cognitive control in bilingualism.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Exeter, 2017

MSc Psychological Research Methods, University of Exeter, 2019

Research group links

• Cognition

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Research

Research interests

I am interested in cognitive control in various domains.

My primary research interest, and the subject of my PhD, is the role of cognitive control in bilingualism. I am interested in circumstances under which bilingual communication is, or is not, cognitively effortful and requires endogenous control. I focus primarily on the role of cognitive control in language switching, both in language production and comprehension.

In collaboration with Prof. Aureliu Lavric, I have conducted research comparing task switching and language switching, with a focus on the domain-general vs. domain-specfic use of top-down control.

In collaboration with Prof. Stephen Monsell, I also conduct research into the acquisition of novel task-set, focusing on the declarative-to-procedural shift in representation of task-set when learning new tasks.

During my Masters degree, I conducted research into the acquisition of novel attentional templates under the supervison of Prof. Aureliu Lavric and Prof. Stephen Monsell.

Alongside my Masters degree, I also worked on a research project headed by Dr. Heike Elchlepp looking at the effects of mindfulness meditation on different aspects of attentional control.

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Publications

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