PhD Students
Jinming Zhou (Open Science Framework)
Areas of interest: Psycholinguistics, especially sentence comprehension; Second language acquisition; Bilingualism
PhD Thesis: My PhD project investigates how English first (L1) and second language (L2) speakers process language similarly and differently, integrating both systematic reviews and experimental studies. Specifically, it examines the processing of ambiguous relative clauses and agreement violations using eye-tracking and offline comprehension measures. The project also explores the role of individual differences (e.g., lexical automaticity, L2 proficiency) in language comprehension.
Xinyu Liu
Areas of interest: Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, Bilingualism, Brain Ageing
PhD Thesis: My PhD project is about long-term effects of bilingualism on ageing brain. The project utilises the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) datasets accessed through Dementias Platform UK (DPUK). The neuroimaging data, especially the resting-state MEG data will be analysed, combining with demographic information of participants to solve the research questions.
