Leigh Fernandez

Dr. Leigh Fernandez is a Visiting Researcher at the School of Psychology & Neuroscience. Their research focuses on bilingual language processing, psycholinguistics, and eye movement dynamics during reading. Key areas include cross-language semantic interactions, orthographic processing, and the effects of parafoveal cues in L1 and L2 readers.

Research Interests:

• Bilingualism and second language acquisition
• Cognitive mechanisms of reading
• Eye movement paradigms in psycholinguistics

Recent work explores how bilinguals integrate semantic and orthographic information across languages, as well as the role of parafoveal vision in reading efficiency. Publications span topics like German-English bilingual processing and the impact of visual masking on language comprehension.