Psychology

Srimoyee Chaterjie

Srimoyee Chaterjie

Postgraduate Researcher
Psychology

University of Exeter
Washington Singer Laboratories
Perry Road - Prince of Wales Road
Exeter EX4 4QG

PhD candidate in Psychology (Economic and Social Research Council funded)

 

Research topic: Intentional (top-down) control of language selection in bilinguals

 
My research focuses on examining the mechanisms that underpin the intentional (top-down) control of language selection in bilingual speech production and comprehension. Specifically, I focus on how bilinguals can effectively switch between two (or more) languages and to what extent this process is ‘costly’ or ‘cost-free’ in terms of the cognitive resources employed. In doing so, I aim to advance our understanding of bilingual language processing.
 
I use behavioural experiments that employ a 'cued language switching' procedure wherein participants name pictures of common objects in the cued language, with the target language repeating or switching unpredictably throughout the task. In additional to behavioural measures, I am also interested in using electrophysiological (EEG) techniques in combination with advanced machine-learning based analyses to examine how we prepare to switch languages. 
 

Research supervisors: Prof. Aureliu Lavric, Prof. Stephen Monsell and Prof. Jonathan Fieldsend

 

Conference Presentations:

  • Co-Chair for Symposium: "The Role of Inhibition in Language Selection in Bilinguals: The Current State of Evidence" - European Society for Cognitive Psychology Conference, September 2025
  • "No Indication of ‘Global’ Language Inhibition Persisting From One Trial to the Next: Evidence From Two Manipulations of Picture Naming" - European Society for Cognitive Psychology Conference, September 2025
  • "How robust is the n-2 language repetition cost, allegedly a demonstration of language inhibition?" - Experimental Psychology Society Conference, April 2025
  • "The effect of the probability of a language switch on the switch cost." - Experimental Psychology Society Conference, January 2025

 

Qualifications:

 

MSc Psychological Research Methods (University of Exeter)

  • Grade: Distinction
  • MSc Prize in Psychological Research Methods for best overall performance 
  • Dean's commendation in recognition of outstanding academic performance

 

BSc Psychology (University of Exeter) 

  • Grade: 1st Class
  • Dean's commendation in recognition of outstanding academic performance 

 

Postgraduate Teaching Associate: 

In addition to my PhD research, I work as a Postgraduate Teaching Associate on a number of modules including PSYM201 Advanced Statistics, PSY2209/PSY2212 Cognition Practical and PSYM202 Behavioural Science Research Skills (sessions on EEG data processing and building behavioural experiments in Gorilla Experiment Builder).  

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