People - Graduate Students

Current Students

Ph.D. Students

Caitlin E O’Riordan - Ph.D. Student

Caitlin earned her BSc in Psychology and MSc in Psychological Research at Bangor University. Caitlin also undertook a traineeship as a Research Assistant at Humboldt-University, Berlin. Caitlins Ph.D. research investigates how bilingualism can modulate cognitive decline in older adulthood. More specifically, she is interested in monolingual and bilingual older adults differ with regards to the rate of decline in executive function processes such as suppression of attention to irrelevant visual information and conflict monitoring. This research employs the event-related potential technique (ERP) alongside a simple computer task that allows us to measure and record brain activity associated with these processes.

Masters students

Elena Neophytou - MPhil Student
My MPhil thesis focuses on how specific factors such as language properties, amount of exposure to each language, and proficiency, can influence vocabulary development, speech segmentation, and attention processes in bilinguals across development. ERPs, CDI, Eye-Tracking

Former Students

Nat Ebanks - Ph.D. student
Nat earned her MSc and BSc in Psychology at Bangor University. Nat's Ph.D. reseach investigates developmental changes in the cognitive mechanisms and neural systems involved in the formation of conceptual categories in monolingual and bilingual children. She is particularly interested in how exposure to more than one language during development may affect different brain mechanisms involved in domain general learning processes such as focused attention to relevant information and suppression of attention to irrelevant cues. Nat is now a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Glyndwr University.

Lowri Hadden - Ph.D student
Lowri earned her BSc in Linguistics and MSc in Psychology at Bangor University. Lowri is interested in both Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Research. Her Ph.D. research investigates both qualitative and quantitative factors associated with emotion processing in Welsh/English bilingual adults and adults with schizophrenia. As part of this research she is conducting an ERP study on emotion and language in early and late Welsh/English bilingual adults. She is particularly interested in how language-elicited emotions may be experienced differently in L1 and L2 in bilinguals. Lowri is now at Cardiff University studying for a Clinical Doctorate.