Laura Wakeford

Dr. Laura Wakeford is a Lecturer in Psychology at Abertay University's Department of Sociological and Psychological Sciences. Her ESRC-funded research examines cognitive mechanisms of reading and language production through experimental approaches.

Research focuses on:

• Eye movement control during reading
• Lexical processing and parallel word recognition
• Structural priming in language production
• Computational analysis of linguistic change
• Visual cueing in syntactic processing

Recent studies investigate how lexical-syntactic representations influence language production patterns. Secondary research stream examines linguistic markers in extremist communication patterns.

Dr. Wakeford employs eye-tracking methodologies and computational linguistic analysis across diverse experimental paradigms. She maintains collaborations examining reading processes and the cognitive science of language.