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Hazel Blythe is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Northumbria University, having previously held a Lectureship at the University of Southampton from 2014 until her move in 2019. Her research focuses on typical and atypical literacy development in children, cognitive development, and visual cognition. Key areas include phonological processing during reading, eye movements during reading, binocular coordination, and cross-linguistic studies (e.g., Chinese reading).
Her research employs eye-tracking techniques and experimental paradigms to explore how children process linguistic and visual information. Notable collaborations include work with Tianjin Normal University on word spacing in Chinese reading. She has supervised doctoral student Emily Bellerby, whose research examines incidental word learning during reading.
Publications span topics like phonological recoding in dyslexic readers, parafoveal preprocessing in children, and the role of binocular coordination in reading efficiency. Her work bridges developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and educational practice, contributing to understanding reading acquisition and interventions for atypical populations.
