Research centres and groups

Many of the departments research groups have their own websites with details of their activity and events.

Auditory Perception and Health Care

We conduct basic research on hearing and hearing disorders that is relevant to patients, clinicians, and health-care policy-makers.

Psycholinguistics

Our research looks into the mental structures and representations underlying human language processing.

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation lab

Using TMS techniques we explore how cognitive functions are organised in the brain.

York Neuroimaging Centre

Meg scanner

An interdisciplinary focus for brain imaging with fMRI, MEG, EEG, and TMS.

Centre for Reading and Language

Mum and Child reading - [courtesy Tom Briggs]

CRL specialises in high quality research into the nature and causes of reading and language difficulties.

Sleep Language and Memory

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We research into language, language learning and the role of sleep in memory consolidation.

Working Memory and Learning


We focus on research on the cognitive processes involved in memory and learning.