Language Lab

Welcome

Welcome to the Language Lab at De Monfort University. We are a group of psychology researchers interested in language processing, language learning, language production, bilingualisms, psycholinguistics and many more topics related to language.

Dr Marie-Josee Bisson

Marie's research focuses on the cognitive predictors of  language learning, on bilingualisms and psycholinguistics. 

marie-josee.bisson@dmu.ac.uk

Dr Kaitlyn Zavaleta

Kaitlyn's research focuses on how individuals learn, use, and organise two or more languages. 

kaitlyn.zavaleta@dmu.ac.uk

Follow me on Twitter (@dr_klzavaleta) and LinkedIn

Dr Anuenue Baker-Kukona

Anue is a collaborator based at the University of Greenwich. His research focuses on sentence and word comprehension.

A.P.BakerKukona@greenwich.ac.uk

Josef Toon

Josef is a PhD student interested in in understanding the processes that underpin the retrieval of information from semantic memory when we hear spoken words and environmental sounds.

Emily Clarke

Emily is an undergraduate frontrunner research assistant. She is currently working on an EEG project on language learning and also supports our impact work in the lab. 

Volunteer Research Assistants

Aneef Ahmadzai

Ray Ahmed

Chloe Cartwright

Phoebe Hardiman

Zelma Idanwekhai

Ralf Lawton-Smith

Nikita Klevanovs

Safira Moradi

Margarida Pais

Jamie Sargent-Walker

Zainab Tailor

Interested to do a PhD ?

There are PhD places available in the Division of Psychology at De Montfort University. If you are interested, get in touch with one of us to explore potential PhD topics.

Do you want to volunteer in the lab?

We have a group of volunteer research assistants gaining research experience in our lab. This can involve data collection, preparing stimuli or coding of participant data (and lots more). If you are interested get in touch!