Ellen Taylor

Contact

• workRoom B16 Psychology
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Ellen.Taylor@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

As a Teaching Associate, my main responsibilities are demonstrating for workshops and personal tutoring. Before coming to Nottingham, I studied a DPhil in Experimental Psychology at University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Kate Nation. I also have a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from York St John University, and a MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from Durham.

Research Summary

My research focuses on reading development and language processing. Particularly, I'm interested in the role of semantic context in visual word processing. A central aim of my research has been to… read more

Recent Publications

• TAYLOR, ELLEN, NATION, KATE and HSIAO, YALING, 2022. Context Availability and Sentence Availability Ratings for 3,000 English Words and their Association with Lexical Processing Journal of Cognition. 5(1),
• NEGEN, JAMES, CHERE, BRITTNEY, BIRD, LAURA-ASHLEIGH, TAYLOR, ELLEN, ROOME, HANNAH E., KEENAGHAN, SAMANTHA, THALER, LORE and NARDINI, MARKO, 2019. Sensory cue combination in children under 10 years of age COGNITION. 193,

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Current Research

My research focuses on reading development and language processing. Particularly, I'm interested in the role of semantic context in visual word processing. A central aim of my research has been to understand why some words are easier to process than others, and how the linguistic context in which words appear shapes our understanding of them.

• TAYLOR, ELLEN, NATION, KATE and HSIAO, YALING, 2022. Context Availability and Sentence Availability Ratings for 3,000 English Words and their Association with Lexical Processing Journal of Cognition. 5(1),
• NEGEN, JAMES, CHERE, BRITTNEY, BIRD, LAURA-ASHLEIGH, TAYLOR, ELLEN, ROOME, HANNAH E., KEENAGHAN, SAMANTHA, THALER, LORE and NARDINI, MARKO, 2019. Sensory cue combination in children under 10 years of age COGNITION. 193,