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Dr Naira Taroyan is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sheffield Hallam University, affiliated with the Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences (SIS) within the College of Social Sciences and Arts. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (2008) and a prior PhD in Psychophysiology (1995). Her research focuses on brain-behavior correlations in visual perception, cognitive functions, and neurodegenerative disorders like dyslexia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Education includes a Biology undergraduate degree and MSc in Psychophysiology from Yerevan State University (Armenia), followed by a PhD in Visual Psychophysiology at Moscow State University. Postdoctoral research at Brown University (USA) and the University of Sheffield preceded her 2007 appointment at SHU.
Research interests span:
- Electrophysiological methods (EEG/ERP) for studying visual perception
- Cognitive mechanisms of reading and dyslexia
- Alzheimer’s disease neurophysiology
- Visual-spatial attention and hemispheric lateralisation
- Coherent motion perception
Publications (2000–2021) reveal a focus on ERP studies of visual processing abnormalities in disorders, with recent work on lightness contrast/assimilation and nicotine’s effects on auditory ERP components.
Awards: No explicit prizes listed, but active in professional organizations: British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN), International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO), and Organisation for Human Brain Mapping.
Supervises three PhD students in reading/language and visual perception domains, including completed theses by Samuel Acaster (2018) and Emma Lethbridge (2015). Active in MSc Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience program, teaching Perception & Cognition modules and electrophysiology techniques.
