consolidation

Children and adults benefit from a new word’s phonological neighbours during explicit vocabulary instruction, suggesting that related prior knowledge supports learning across development. This study examined lexical neighbourhood structure during …

Guest speaker at the *Language, Learning, & Cognition Lab* meeting, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Talk for Memrise's *MemTalks* series on the benefits of sleep for language learning.

We test whether sleep-associated memory benefits are observable in naturalistic language learning.

Virtual poster presentation at the upcoming Cognitive Science Society meeting.

Ongoing; ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship research

We present new evidence that poor comprehenders’ encoding difficulties extend beyond word meanings and into the phonological domain; but that consolidation mechanisms remain intact.

Science for kids, edited by kids. Part of the collection *Everything you and your teachers need to know about the learning brain.*

2014--2019: PhD research with Dr Lisa Henderson and Prof. Gareth Gaskell

The relative contributions of different learning mechanisms may change across the lifespan.