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Professor Ian Apperly

Professor Ian Apperly

Professor of cognition and development
Director of Research for the School of Psychology

Ian Apperly is a cognitive psychologist, and his main research interest is in “mindreading” – the ability to take other people’s perspectives. He is the author of a recent book entitled “Mindreaders: The cognitive basis of theory of mind”.

Dr Sarah Beck

Dr Sarah Beck

Reader

My research examines children’s and adults’ thinking about time and knowledge. I am interested in how children become able to speculate about events in the past and future and how they handle uncertainty, and how adults’ apparently sophisticated thinking in these areas is often irrational. More information about my research and my lab can be found at www.sarahruthbec ...

Dr Katerina Kantartzis

Dr Katerina Kantartzis

Research Associate

Katerina is currently working as coordinator for Dr Joe McCleery’s behavioural and EEG/ERP research on language development in toddlers at high risk of developing autism, funded by the UK-based charity organisation Autistica. She is also working with Dr Kita on further projects on infant’s perception and use of sound symbolism.

She was also involved in ...

Dr Sotaro Kita

Dr Sotaro Kita

Reader

My primary research interest is the relationship between language, cognition and action. More specifically, I investigate gestures that people spontaneously produce during speaking and thinking and language development in children.

My Researcher IDs are as follows

Thompson Reuter's ResearcherID: B-2860-2008.

ORCiD: http://o ...

Dr Andrea Krott

Dr Andrea Krott

Senior Lecturer

Andrea Krott is psycholinguist who is interested in language acquisition and brain responses to language processing. Many of her studies, carried out in various languages, have focused on how adults and children understand and produce compound words (e.g. “baby bottle”). Her current research concerns children’s word learning and language-related brain responses (EEG) in ...

Dr Joe McCleery

Dr Joe McCleery

Lecturer in Developmental Neuroscience

Dr McCleery is interested in typical and atypical social-emotional, social-communicative, and language development.

PhD and visiting Students

Nicola Cutting

Amélie Gourdon

Kate Graham

Katerina Kantartzis

Elsa Loissell

Katherine Mumford

Nina Powell

Laurie Powis

Simon Snape

Chrysi Stefanidou

Andrew Surtees

Jane Waite

Jessica Wang

Daniel Weisberg