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Abby Laishley is a Researcher in the Department of Psychology within Bournemouth University's Faculty of Science and Technology. She joined the institution in 2012 as a postgraduate researcher and completed her PhD in 2017, specializing in cognitive psychology with a focus on language development and reading processes.
Her research centers on using mobile eye tracking technology to investigate how children read, remember, and write in classroom environments. As a cognitive psychologist, she treats eye movements as critical indicators of moment-to-moment cognitive processing, examining lexical processing, word skipping behaviors, and the impact of contextual factors on reading comprehension. Her work bridges developmental psychology and educational practice through empirical classroom-based studies.
Her two 2014 publications analyze lexical processing across age groups and the interplay between word frequency and sentence context during reading. These studies reveal how cognitive mechanisms differ between children and adults during language tasks, with implications for literacy instruction and understanding developmental trajectories in reading acquisition.
Dr. Laishley actively engages in academic dissemination through conference presentations including the 17th European Conference on Eye Movements (2013) and public outreach initiatives such as the Bournemouth University Active Vision Workshop (2016), demonstrating commitment to translating research into practical educational applications.
