MA, MRes, AFHEA
Research PG
- About
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- Email Address
- t.alexander.24@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Psychology
Biography
Hi there! I'm currently a PhD student within the School. I research language comprehension - in particular, how individuals predict upcoming words, and what consequences these predictions have for comprehension. I am supervised by Dr Joost Rommers and Prof Patric Bach.
Before starting my PhD I studied both Philosophy and Psychology, also at Aberdeen. Within Philosophy I was interested in epistemology (the philosophy of knowledge), and the overlap of epistemology and moral philosophy (epistemic injustice).
Qualifications
- MA Philosophy and Psychology2023 - University of Aberdeen
First class honours
- MRes Psychology2024 - University of Aberdeen
Awarded with distinction
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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L1/L2/MSc Practical tutor
L4 PAL Leader
Member of the Rommers Lab and the Action Prediction Lab
Year 2 PhD representative for the ECR committee
School of Psychology EDI committee
Chair of APSC Committee
Co-Chair of the LGBTQ+ Staff and Postgraduate Network (with Brian Mathias)
- External Memberships
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Member of the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences
Experimental Psychology Society Postgraduate Member
Associate Fellow of Advance HE (AFHEA)
Prizes and Awards
ESRC - SGSSS Studentship (1+3 award), awarded through the Student-Led Open Competition: 2023 - 2027
School of Psychology internal funding to support research internship: 2022
Discovering research award to support research internship: 2021
University of Aberdeen Merit Scholarships: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
- Research
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Research Overview
My research is on predictive processing in language comprehension - that is, how language users predict upcoming words when comprehending language. In particular, I'm interested in how individuals update incorrect predictions when they are proven incorrect.
Research Areas
Psychology
Research Specialisms
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive Psychology
- Quantitative Psychology
- Psychology
- Psychology of Memory and Learning
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Collaborations
Pepita Alex (PhD Student, UoA)
Anita Malik (PhD Student, UoA)
Ke Zhao (MRes researcher, UoA)
Supervision
I am supervised by Dr Joost Rommers and Prof Patric Bach
Supervisors
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
PS1009/1509 - Introduction to concepts and theories within Psychology
PS1011/1511 - Introductory Psychology: Methods and Applications (APA; evaluating research through reliability and validity; designing and conducting experiments; t-tests)
PS2018/2518 - Advanced Psychology: Methods and Applications (logic of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing; t-tests; Chi-squared tests; correlation; regression; ANOVA; qualitative methods)
PS5529 - Methods and Analysis in Psychology (MSc) (t-tests; correlation; simple and multiple regression; ANOVA; survey and observational methods; qualitative methods)
Non-course Teaching Responsibilities
L4 PAL