I鈥檓 a Lecturer within the Division of Psychology and Forensic Sciences at Abertay. I completed my MA and ESRC-funded MSc and PhD in Psychology at the University of Dundee. Prior to joining Abertay in 2019, I worked on two research projects titled 鈥楶redicting Online Radicalisation鈥� (University of Bath) and 鈥楢n Experimental Investigation of Syntactic Priming and the Lexical Boost in Language Production鈥� (University of Dundee).
聽As a cognitive psychologist, I am particularly interested in how attention is distributed during reading; or more specifically, whether we can聽lexically聽process more than one word at a time. This research has, in collaboration with Dr Wayne Murray, typically involved using eye tracking technologies to test models of eye movement control during reading.
More generally, I am also interested in the factors that influence language production. This involves further exploring the structural priming effect (i.e., the well-established finding that we are more likely to reproduce a syntactic structure we have just encountered rather than construct one anew), as well as measuring how language evolves to align with group affiliations as they develop over time.
p.g.lovell@abertay.ac.uk
01382 308581
v.kempe@abertay.ac.uk
01382 308586
