Research in my lab focuses, for example, on understanding the processes underlying visual word recognition in monolinguals and bilinguals; the neural bases of word processing; the relationship between executive functions and language; foreign-language vocabulary acquisition; subtitle processing; non-native speech perception and speech-perception training; and the development of computational models of visual word recognition.

Current/Recent Research projects

• Do same-language subtitles help children learn to read? (Funded by the Nuffield Foundation)

Normalised Ghent score

In Wen et al. (2024) we introduced a scoring method for LexTALE (Lemhöfer & Broersma, 2012) and LexTALE-type lexical tests (e.g. LexCHI, LexMAL, Lextale-ESP, LEXTALE_FR) based on the Ghent score (Brysbaert, 2013). This new normalised Ghent score enables comparisons across different lextale-type tests. I've created LexTALE scoring calculator that provides the different scores as well as information about the formula used.

Psycholinguistic Databases developed in my lab:

• Word frequency database for British English: SUBTLEX-UK (Search/View SUBTLEX-UK)
• Word frequency database for Welsh: SUBTLEX-CY (Search/View SUBTLEX-CY)
• Word frequency database for Greek: GreekLex 2 (Search/View GreekLex 2)
• Chinese translation norms for 1429 English words (Search/View English-Chinese Translation Norms)
• Translation norms for Malay and English words (Search/View English-Malay Translation norms)

I collaborate with colleagues at the University of Nottingham and other universties in the UK and abroad (e.g., the Netherlands, Malaysia, Poland). My research has been funded by national and international funding agencies.

I am a member of the Psycholinguistics Research Group and the Cognition and Language group at University of Nottingham. I am also a member of the EPS, ESCoP, and the Psychonomic Society.