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Kevin Paterson is a Professor of Experimental Psychology and Head of the School of Psychology and Vision Sciences at the University of Leicester. He holds a visiting professorship at Tianjin Normal University, China. His research focuses on cognitive mechanisms in reading, with emphasis on aging effects, cross-linguistic comparisons (Arabic, Chinese, English, Mongolian), and neurophysiological techniques like eye-tracking and EEG. His work has been funded by major bodies including The British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, and ESRC.
- Education: MA (Hons) from University of Glasgow (1990), PhD in Psychology (1996)
Research interests include:
- Cognitive aging’s impact on reading
- Eye movement dynamics during reading
- Neural bases of reading via EEG co-registration
- Cross-cultural reading comparisons
Publications emphasize eye-movement patterns in aging readers, cross-linguistic reading mechanisms, and ERP-based neural correlates of reading processes. Key findings include preserved parafoveal processing in older adults and age-related differences in word predictability effects.
- Awards: Haihe Friendship Award (2020), British Academy Fellowship (2012)
Grants include funding from UKRI BBSRC/ESRC and Ulverscroft Foundation. He supervises research in vision sciences and collaborates internationally. Current research explores aging effects on health message comprehension and syntactic prediction in reading.
