The Language, Memory & Attention Research Group comprises researchers dedicated to understanding various aspects of cognition.
Members' interests and expertise
The link between attention and awareness; development of a perceptual-motor account of short-term serial memory and its relation to long-term sequence learning; the neurobiology of speech and language; the interplay between communication, culture and evolution; how the properties of individuals' social networks (e.g., size, heterogeneity, density) influence their linguitic skills and the process of language evolution; visual word recognition; role of vocabulary in reading; development of physical knowledge; impact of sleep and memory consolidation on learning.
The LMA group is convened by Dr Shiri Lev-Ari. Please see here for list of current members, publications, and projects.