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Dr Julia Schwarz

University of Cambridge

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About

I am a Teaching Associate for Experimental Psychology, Statistics and Research Design, Department of Psychology, Cambridge, and Affiliated Lecturer in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, MMLL, Cambridge. I specialize in experimental research on language and cognition using a variety of behavioural paradigms, magnetoencephalographic (MEG) and electroencephalographic (EEG) data. I currently pursue three lines of research:

  1. Lexical processing (incl. word morphology and individual differences)
  2. Predictive processing at the sentence level (and factors modulating this process)
  3. Prosodic cues to speech sampling of continuous speech (among diverse populations, incl. bilinguals and individuals with developmental dyslexia)

Teaching interests

Since 2019, I have been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students on topics in Statistics, Data Analysis with R, Phonetics/Phonology/Morphology, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, and Social Cognition Development. I am particularly passionate about:

  1. making good data science accessible to all
  2. combining theoretical linguistics with experimental evidence from behavioural science and neuroimaging

Research interests

  • speech perception and processing
  • predictive processing
  • speech prosody
  • language disorders
  • dyslexia
  • lexical processing
  • morphology