Research questions
- how new words are learned, consolidated, and integrated into memory
- how sleep and rest shape memory consolidation
- how perception and action influence spoken-language processing
- how language and visual scenes interact during comprehension
- how measurement and analytic choices affect psychological inference
How we study them
- behavioural experiments and reaction-time measures
- eye tracking, including Eyelink 1000-based visual attention work
- cognitive neuroscience methods such as EEG, TMS, and tDCS
- experimental design and analytic workflows for rigorous psychological research
Students and collaboration
Current doctoral work connected to this environment includes verbal fluency, psychometrics, AI-supported quantitative methods, and student judgement in higher education. See Research Students for project summaries.
Undergraduate projects
I strongly support undergraduate involvement in research, including third-year projects and research assistantship-style work where appropriate. Good fits include questions about word learning, memory, attention, language processing, and research methods.
Masters and doctoral study
I welcome enquiries from prospective MSc, MRes, and PhD students whose interests overlap with language, cognition, memory, or methods. The University of Hull offers postgraduate research routes, and funded opportunities are sometimes available through university or external schemes. Current doctoral work is outlined on the Research Students page.
I am also open to collaboration on projects connected to psycholinguistics, cognition, eye tracking, learning and memory, or methodological questions in psychology. For supervision or collaboration, email S.Lindsay@hull.ac.uk.
A good first enquiry
The most useful initial message usually includes:
- the question or topic you want to work on
- your current stage and disciplinary background
- the methods you already know, or want to learn
- whether you are exploring a dissertation, Masters project, PhD application, or collaboration
That makes it much easier to judge fit, suggest a realistic next step, and point you to the most relevant part of the current research programme.