Beyersmann Lab
Dr. Elisabeth (Lisi) Beyersmann and her team are based at the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University and are interested in the cognitive underpinnings of language processing, particularly in understanding the processes involved in reading and reading development. The lab investigates language processing in both children and adults, using a variety of behavioural, neuropsychological, and neurophysiological techniques including MEG, EEG, and eye-tracking.
Latest Publications
(2023).
The effect of constituent frequency and distractor type on learning novel complex words.
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
(2023).
The role of morphemic knowledge during novel word learning.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
(2023).
Positional encoding of morphemes in visual word recognition.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
(2023).
Literacy acquisition in Germanic languages.
In D. Meletis, M. Evertz-Rittich, & R. Treiman (Eds.), Handbook of Germanic writing systems. De Gruyter.
(2023).
The role of oral vocabulary when L2 speakers read novel words: A complex word training study.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
(2023).
Cross-language morphological transfer in similar-script bilinguals.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
(2023).
The effect of spoken vocabulary training on reading complex novel words.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(6), 1321–1332.
(2023).
Cross-language influences on morphological processing in bilinguals.
In I. Elgort, A. Siyanova, & M. Brysbart (Eds.), Cross-language influences in bilingual processing and second language acquisition (pp. 230–261). John Benjamins.
(2023).
Previewing novel words before reading affects their processing during reading: An eye-movement study with first and second language readers.
Language Learning, 1–33.
(2023).
Orthographic expectancies in the absence of contextual support.
Scientific Studies of Reading, 27(2), 187–197.
Recent Lab Work
Congratulations to Jasmine Spencer and Esra Ataman, who were awarded the David Hall Prize for excellence in HDR research (25 October 2023).
