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My main area of research is within selective attention, but as demonstrated by the variety of topics and colleague names in my publication list, I'm really just a big research nerd with a brain that constantly thinks about "ooh how can that be tested using an experiment?". Below are the main research that I'm currently working on now.
Current Research
Current Research
What does the Stroop task measure?
What does the Stroop task measure?
I primarily research the mechanisms that are involved in cognitive control - how attentional resources can be effectively allocated to important, task-relevant information instead of distractors in the environment. A lot of this research is done using the Stroop task which is the most commonly used task in psychology. However, even though the task is the 'gold standard' measure of attention, we still do not know what it taps into since subtle variations in it's design and administration can influence the different effects observed (see the figure below from a recent review paper - Parris et al., 2021 - illustrating some hypothesised effects).
I work closely with the following colleagues on this topic (the Stroop Doggs): Ben Parris, Maria Augustinova, and Ludovic Ferrand.
Cognitive control in language
Cognitive control in language
More recently I have been working with Anue Baker-Kukona from Greenwich, to study the function of cognitive control on language. We measure sentence ambiguity effects using online mouse tracking, and see how this is affected by manipulations of cognitive control. Theoretical questions we explore include whether there is a causal link between the ability to control attention and our language skills, and the domain generality of cognitive control manipulations - i.e., can training using Stroop transfer to language performance?
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