Alex Mepham
PhD student

Profile

Biography

• PhD Psychology, University of York, UK, 2019 - present
• BSc (Hons) Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London (UCL), UK, 2016 - 2019

Career

• Research Assistant, Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, UCL, UK, 2018 - 2019
• Research Assistant, Language and Cognition, UCL, UK, 2018

Departmental roles

• Graduate Student Representative
• Graduate Teaching Assistant

Research

Overview

Cognitive Listening: Investigating speech perception in noise within a cognitive framework (funded by the Leverhulme Trust).

Projects

I am interested in isolating the role of informational interference (content of distracting speech) in speech perception from lower-level energetic (e.g. noise) and informational masking (e.g. sound source allocation and speaker characteristics). Additionally, I aim to identify individual differences in informational interference control, and how informational interference interacts with energetic masking.

Research group(s)

Speech perception group / Psycholinguistic research group

Collaborators

• Professor Sven Mattys
• Dr Sarah Knight

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2019 - present

Publications

External activities

Memberships

• British Psychological Society (BPS), Graduate Member
• Psychonomic Society, Student Member

Outreach

Talks about The Science of Hearing and Studying Undergraduate Psychology at Roots to Success (University of York, Dec 2019), YorNight (York Barbican, Feb 2020), York Next Step (University of York, Mar 2020), and Sixth Form Psychology Seminars (Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School, Nov 2020).