Rhiannon Pearce
PhD Student

Profile

Biography

• BSc Psychology, University of York, UK, 2014 - 2017
• MSc Development, Disorders and Clinical Practice, University of York, UK, 2017 - 2018
• Research Assistant on the BabyBabble project, University of York, UK, 2018 - 2019
• PhD Psychology, University of York, UK, 2019 - present

Research

Overview

The malleability of verb biases

Projects

My research investigates how the brain updates existing information to account for new input. Specifically, whether grammatical biases for individual verbs can be modified and whether this modification is consolidated by sleep. I am also interested in how we represent the knowledge of other people and how we use that to monitor their understanding in conversation.

Research group(s)

SLAM Lab (Sleep Language and Memory)

Collaborators

• Prof Gareth Gaskell
• Dr Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

Publications