Laura Speed
Research Associate

Research

Overview

The interaction between language and perception

Research group(s)

Olfaction Lab

Grants

• BPS award for best undergraduate thesis (University of Edinburgh)
• UCL Bogue Fellowship
• Radboud University NWO Aspasia grant

Collaborators

• Asifa Majid, University of York

Publications

Selected publications

• Speed, L. J. & Majid, A. (2018). An exception to mental simulation: No evidence for embodied odor language. Cognitive Science 42(4), 1146-1178.
  (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.12593 )
• Speed, L. J. & Majid, A. (2017). Superior olfactory language and cognition in odor synaesthesia. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human, Perception, Performance 44(3), 468-481.
  (http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-35530-001 )
• Speed, L.J., van Dam, W. O., Hirath, P. Vigliocco, G., & Desai, R. (2017). Impaired comprehension of speed verbs in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 23(5), 412-420.
  (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-international-neuropsychological-society/article/impaired-comprehension-of-speed-verbs-in-parkinsons-disease/4E18DDE27B6FA9E3D5A1950302DEF140 )
• Speed, L. J. & Majid, A. (2017). Dutch modality exclusivity norms: Simulating perceptual modality in space. Behavior Research Methods, 49(6), 2204-2218.
  (https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-017-0852-3 )