Jess Price

Contact

• workRoom Room B1A21 University of Nottingham Malaysia
  Malaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• work+6 (03) 8924 8759
• fax+6 (03) 8924 8018
• Jessica.Price@nottingham.edu.my

Biography

I graduated from the University of Glasgow with an MA(Hons) in Psychology, an MSc in Psycholinguistic Research methods and a PhD in written language comprehension in healthy Ageing. I gained post-doctoral experience at both University of Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow, investigating the neural and cognitive mechanisms that are affected in early stages of Alzheimer's disease, using dense array EEG/ERP techniques, before working at the University of Birmingham as a teaching fellow. I joined the University of Nottingham Malaysia in August 2011. My Orcid profile I.D is 0000-0001-7200-8691

Expertise Summary

I use a range of behavioural techniques as well as eye tracking and electroencephalogy in my research. I am interested in factors that influence how deeply we comprehend discourse. I have explored how these factors might change across the lifespan and more recently in bilinguals/multilinguals. More recently, i have become interested in exploring how language background can influence executive functioning. I also investigate ways in which you can measure language background and language proficiency. I also investigate more applied areas such as factors influencing food choice, the effects of music on anxiety and mental health.

Teaching Summary

I am the Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning for the Faculty of Science and Engineering. I co-ordinate teaching related activities across the faculty.

I have previously taught on these courses in the School of Psychology:

• C82SAD Social and Developmental Psychology
• C83CNA Cognitive Neuroscience of Ageing
• C82PIN Personality and Individual Differences
• C83NDD Neurodegenerative diseases

I currently teach on the following modules:

• PSGY1015 Practical Methods 1
• PSGY2012 Cognitive Psychology
• PSGY2016 Practical Methods in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
• PSGY2011 Practical Methods in Psychology 2
• PSGY3028 Bilingualism
• PSGY3046 Neuropsychology A

I also supervise final year project students and PhD students.

Research Summary

I am currently working on a project which aims to create a database of translation norms of Bahasa Malaysia-English words. The aim is to develop a Bahasa Malaysia language proficiency test. By… read more

Recent Publications

• MUSTAFA ALSHAGGA, MIRAAL MAVALVALA, AINI HAMID and JESSICA PRICE, 2018. Wear What You Learn: An Innovative Way to Foster Out-of-Class Learning Advanced Science Letters. 24(9), 7013-7017
• PRICE, J.M and SANFORD, A.J, 2018. Reading in Healthy Ageing: The Selective Use of Information Structuring Cues. Discourse Processes. 55(2), 206-217
• KASSIM, A.A, REHMAN, R and PRICE, J.M, 2018. Effects of modality and repetition in a continuous recognition memory task: Repetition has no effect on auditory recognition memory. Acta Psychologica. 185, pp 72-80
• PRICE, J. and SANFORD, A.J., 2012. Reading in Healthy Ageing: The Influence of Information Structuring in Sentences. Psychology and Aging.

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Current Research

I am currently working on a project which aims to create a database of translation norms of Bahasa Malaysia-English words. The aim is to develop a Bahasa Malaysia language proficiency test. By creating the database and proficiency test, these resources can be used by researchers interested in investigating cross-language processing differences between Bahasa Malaysia and English. I am also investigating how language context can influence executive functioning.

Past Research

I have worked on the effects of age on recognition memory as well as how age can impact on discourse comprehension

Future Research

In the future, i will be focusing on factors that affect picture naming. I also intend to investigate how bi/multilinguals use linguistic cues in discourse.

• MUSTAFA ALSHAGGA, MIRAAL MAVALVALA, AINI HAMID and JESSICA PRICE, 2018. Wear What You Learn: An Innovative Way to Foster Out-of-Class Learning Advanced Science Letters. 24(9), 7013-7017
• PRICE, J.M and SANFORD, A.J, 2018. Reading in Healthy Ageing: The Selective Use of Information Structuring Cues. Discourse Processes. 55(2), 206-217
• KASSIM, A.A, REHMAN, R and PRICE, J.M, 2018. Effects of modality and repetition in a continuous recognition memory task: Repetition has no effect on auditory recognition memory. Acta Psychologica. 185, pp 72-80
• PRICE, J. and SANFORD, A.J., 2012. Reading in Healthy Ageing: The Influence of Information Structuring in Sentences. Psychology and Aging.
• FILIK, RUTH, PRICE, JESSICA, DARKER, IAIN, GERRETT, DAVID, PURDY, KEVIN and GALE, ALASTAIR, 2010. The influence of tall man lettering on drug name confusion: a laboratory-based investigation in the UK using younger and older adults and healthcare practitioners. Drug safety : an international journal of medical toxicology and drug experience. 33(8), 677-87
• SANFORD, ALISON J S, PRICE, JESSICA and SANFORD, ANTHONY J, 2009. Enhancement and suppression effects resulting from information structuring in sentences. Memory & cognition. 37(6), 880-8
• KILBORN, K, CONWAY, B.A, TIEGES, Z., PRICE, J, HUGHES, A and MCLEAN, G, 2009. Cognitive event related potentials as functional biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association Vol.5, Issue 4.