RASTLE LAB
People
Principal Investigator

Professor Kathy Rastle
Professor of Cognitive Psychology
Research interests: Skilled reading, morphology, speech perception and production, and language and literacy acquisition
E-mail: kathy.rastle@rhul.ac.uk
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Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr Maria Korochkina
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research interests: language (and in particular, word) acquisition; memory encoding, retention, & development; forgetting; sleep; ageing; reading; computational modelling
Email: Maria.Korochkina@rhul.ac.uk

Dr Anastasiya Lopukhina
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research interests: reading development, individual differences, language acquisition, open science
E-mail: Anastasiya.Lopukhina@rhul.ac.uk

Dr Jon Carr
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research interests: Learning and induction; Bayesian modelling; reading behaviour; eye tracking; concepts and categorization; complexity and compression; language evolution; artificial language learning; statistical learning
E-mail: j.w.carr@icloud.com
PhD Students

Mr Cheng-Yu Hsieh
Psychology PhD student
Research interests: Morphology, literacy acquisition, Chinese characters
E-mail: Cheng-Yu.Hsieh.2021@live.rhul.ac.uk

Mr Adam Jowett
Psychology PhD student
Research interests: Language learning, literacy acquisition, speech perception, neurolinguistics, and fMRI analysis
E-mail: adam.jowett.2016@live.rhul.ac.uk

Miss Rebecca Lawrence
Psychology PhD student
Research interests: Language learning, reading acquisition, generalisation, and rule-learning

Miss Benedetta Cevoli
Interdisciplinary PhD student (Psychology & Computer Science)
Research interests: Language learning and processing, natural language processing, semantic ambiguity, sleep, and memory consolidation
E-mail: benedetta.cevoli.2018@rhul.ac.uk
Miss Alizee Lombard
Visiting PhD student
Research interests: Morphology, semantics, generalisation
Research Assistants

Miss Rebecca Crowley
Postgraduate Research Assistant
Research interests: Sleep, memory, targeted memory reactivation, and brain stimulation
E-mail: becky.crowley@rhul.ac.uk
Lab Alumni
Dr Ana Ulicheva (now Pearson UK)
Dr Chloe Newbury (now ONS)
Dr Clare Lally (now UCL)
Dr Jo Taylor (now UCL)
Dr Maria Ktori (now SISSA)
Dr Jakke Tamminen (now RHUL)
Dr Davide Crepaldi (now SISSA)
Dr Erin Hawkins (now Cambridge)
Dr Samantha McCormick (now RHUL)
Dr Betty Mousikou (now Springer Nature)
Dr Rebecca Lucas (now Roehampton)
Dr Lydia Vinals (now Ingress Health)
Ms Oxana Grosseck (now Donders)
Collaborators
Professor Max Coltheart (Macquarie University)
Dr Matt Davis (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)
Professor Anne Castles (Macquarie University)
Professor Kate Nation (Oxford)
Professor Chris Watkins (RHUL)
Professor Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University)
Dr Aureliu Lavric (University of Exeter)
Professor Jeremy Tree (Swansea University)
Professor Chang Lee (Sogang University)