Steven Frisson – Network — University of Birmingham

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Steven Frisson's main area of interest is semantic processing. In particular, he is interested in finding out how language users arrive at an interpretation of a word in context. While this may seem straightforward, especially since most of us do not experience much difficulty in comprehending natural language, it is in fact a remarkably complex process that involves decisions and interactions at many different levels. For example, most words have many different interpretations (eg, school can refer to a place or to an institution; Dickens can refer to a person or to his writings). How do we pick out the right one upon encountering these words? How and when do we integrate a word's meaning in the larger syntactic and semantic context? How do we get to a novel interpretation of a word? Is processing influenced by statistical properties between words? In order to investigate these, and related, questions, Dr Frisson mainly uses eye-tracking methodology as it allows us to detect what portions in a text require more cognitive effort to understand.

Dr Frisson currently works with doctoral researchers on topics including reading processes in people who stutter and figurative language processing in people with psychosis.

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Yali Pan

Psychology - Research Fellow (Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship)

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Ole Jensen

Psychology - Professor of Translational Neuroscience
The Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH)

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Andrew Olson

Psychology - Associate Professor

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Jon Catling

Psychology - Professor of Psychology and Education

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Ian Apperly

Psychology - Professor of Cognition and Development

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Andrea Krott

Psychology - Reader in Psychology of Language
The Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH)

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B McElree

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MJ Pickering

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Dominiek Sandra

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A Pollatsek

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Linda Wheeldon

University of Agder

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M Wakefield

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Frans Daems

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L Bott

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Suresh Vijay

Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Chris Hendriksz

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
University of Pretoria

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Anupam Chakrapani

Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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E Niswander-Klement

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Paul Gissen

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Lewis Bott

Cardiff University

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Maud Pélissier

Université de Paris

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L. Wang

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M.J. Traxler

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Muna Ali

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Kara D. Federmeier

University of Illinois

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A Pollatsel

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Chi-hung Juan

National Central University Taiwan
Kaohsiung Medical University

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F Jamali

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Philip Tseng

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Gregory Murphy

New York University

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Beatrice Zitong Urland

University of Agder

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Adrian Staub

University of Massachusetts

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Matthew A. Timmis

Anglia Ruskin University

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Rebecca Dolan

Anglia Ruskin University

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L Jamali

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Natalie Belanger

University of California, San Diego

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Dag Hauland

University of Agder

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C Gibbs

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Bjorn Handeland

University of Agder

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Hayley Bair

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Anita MacDonald

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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F. Brisard

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Allison Wetterlin

University of Agder

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L Chin

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Keith Rayner

University of California, San Diego

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J Harris

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David L. Mann

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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GL Murphy

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Mahmoud Medhat Elsherif

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Peter M. Allen

Anglia Ruskin University

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Tzvetan Popov

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K Rayner

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Donghyun Ryu

Loughborough University

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Lin Wang

Fudan University

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H. Cuyckens

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Keziah Latham

Anglia Ruskin University

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M Traxler

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David R Harvey

University of Warwick

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L Frazier

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Joy Myint

University of Hertfordshire

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Lesya Y Ganushchak

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G. Van Rillaer

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