Julia Schwarz

Dr. Julia Schwarz is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Cambridge, with affiliations in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. She holds roles as a Teaching Associate in Experimental Psychology and an Affiliated Lecturer in MMLL. Her research focuses on language and cognition, employing behavioral paradigms and neuroimaging techniques like MEG and EEG. Key research areas include lexical processing, predictive sentence processing, and prosodic speech perception in diverse populations, including bilingual individuals and those with dyslexia.

Her work spans experimental linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and developmental disorders. Recent projects explore AI-generated speech prosody perception and speech understanding in masked environments. Publications analyze neuroimaging correlates of lexical deficits in dyslexia and audio-visual speech processing in children and adults. She actively contributes to methodological advancements in online experimentation and speech recording techniques.