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Dr. Eleanor Heggdal Loenes serves as a Teaching Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen. Previously, she completed her PhD research at the University of Dundee where she also worked as a Graduate Tutor and Psychology Support Specialist.
Her research focuses on language processing with emphasis on cross-dialectal communication. She developed experimental paradigms examining how conversation partners from different dialectal backgrounds communicate successfully, particularly at the lexical level. Her primary methodology involves eye tracking combined with lexical choice and reaction time measurements. She maintains additional research interests in patterns of suicidal behavior, accent cues for talker identification, and syntactic ambiguity effects on anticipatory eye movements.
- Research Specialisms: Psycholinguistics, Research Methods in Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Animal Behaviour
- Teaching Focus: Research methods and statistics in Psychology, widening access to Higher Education
Outside of academic work, Dr. Loenes volunteers at a cockatoo sanctuary and studies psittacine communication, reflecting her interest in animal language systems. She teaches multiple courses including Advanced Psychology A - Concepts And Theory (PS2017), Advanced Psychology 1 - Methods And Applications (PS2018), and Psychological Assessment (PS3011), among others.
