{"id":1394,"date":"2020-07-16T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T09:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/psylinglab\/?page_id=1394"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:29:35","slug":"phd-theses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/psylinglab\/research-projects\/phd-theses\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Theses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2025<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>Sheehan, A. (2025). <a href=\"https:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/121914\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There is no &#8216;off&#8217; switch: exploring bilingualism&#8217;s impact on brain function and cognition as a continuously experienced cognitive challenge.<\/a> PhD Thesis, University of Reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>2024<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span>Page, D. (2024). <a href=\"https:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/122854\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An investigation of the Young Interpreter Scheme on children\u2019s development of metalinguistic awareness, empathy, and intercultural awareness.<\/a> PhD Thesis, University of Reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2023<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>Alaskar, S. (2023). <a href=\"https:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/114302\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Non-native sentence processing: A focus on agreement and reflexives.<\/a> PhD Thesis, University of Reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Wright, E. (2023). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48683\/1926.00113142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spoken language multilingualism in deaf children.<\/a> PhD Thesis, University of Reading.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2021<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>Chaouch Orozco, A. (2021). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48683\/1926.00107202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The nature of the bilingual lexicon: Investigating cross-language priming and its predictors.<\/a> PhD Thesis, University of Reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Cheng, Y. (2021). <a href=\"https:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/104897\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sentence processing in English natives and non-natives: Evidence from attachment resolution and agreement processing.<\/a> PhD Thesis, University of Reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>2020<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Voits, T. (2020). <a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/97032\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bilingualism as a neuroprotective factor in ageing: Insights from healthy and clinical populations.<\/a> PhD Thesis, University of Reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>2019<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Fujita, H. (2019). <a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/88856\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reanalysis processes in native and non-native language comprehension.<\/a> PhD Thesis, University of Reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Pontikas, G. (2019). <a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/88634\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Language processing in bilingual children and adults: evidence from filler-gap dependencies and garden path sentences.<\/a> PhD Thesis, University of Reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Puig Mayenco, E. (2019).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/85481\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Polarity in L3 English: The initial stages and beyond.<\/a> PhD Thesis, University of Reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2018<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>DeLuca, V. (2018). <a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/84925\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Changing our brains and minds: exploring the effects of individual differences in bilingual language experience on brain structure, function, and cognition.<\/a> PhD Thesis, University of Reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>2017<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Miller, D. (2017). <a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/76612\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Combining behavioral and neurolinguistic methodologies to investigate Spanish scalar indefinites among mono- and bilinguals: an event-related potential study.<\/a> PhD Thesis, University of Reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 Sheehan, A. (2025). There is no &#8216;off&#8217; switch: exploring bilingualism&#8217;s impact on brain function and cognition as a continuously experienced cognitive challenge. 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