RASTLE LAB
Handouts/Slides from Talks
Kathy Rastle
"Why understanding morphology is vital for vocabulary building and reading comprehension"
Presentation at NATE's (2024) ITE conference
Kathy Rastle
"Learning to Read"
Keynote presented at Research Ed Oxford (November, 2022)
Kathy Rastle
Ending the "Reading Wars": How insights from cognitive science can improve children's reading in South Africa
Presentation given at a Curriculum Strengthening Event, Department for Education, Western Cape, South Africa (February, 2022).
Kathy Rastle
Ending the "Reading Wars": How insights from cognitive science can improve children's reading in South Africa
Keynote given at the Literacy Lekgotla (February, 2022).
Kathy Rastle
How do writing systems shape reading and reading acquisition?
Keynote given at Exling 2020 (October, 2020).
Kathy Rastle
What makes a writing system optimal?
Keynote given at Exling 2021 (October, 2021).
Kathy Rastle
The Journey from Form to Meaning in English and other Writing Systems
Talk given at the Language, Literacy & Learning Conference in Perth, Australia (April 2019).
Kathy Rastle
How Research in Psychology Can Help Us End the "Reading Wars"
Talk given at an International Meeting for Cognitive Science in the Classroom at UNESCO, Paris (April 2019).
Kathy Rastle
The journey to skilled reading
Keynote given at Gates Foundation Meeting for Literacy in LMICs (March, 2020).
Adam Jowett
How Does Learning to Read Shape the Neural Representation of Spoken and Written Language?
Talk given at the Forum for Research in Language and Literacy (November 2018).
Becky Lawrence
Word Reading and the Tolerance Principle
Talk given at the RHUL Postgraduate Convention (November, 2018), and Forum for Research in Language and Literacy, London (March, 2019).
Clare Lally
Morphological Decomposition in the Ventral Stream
Talk given at the Forum for Research in Language and Literacy, Reading (November, 2018), RHUL Postgraduate Convention (November, 2018), and Rice University, Houston, Texas (January, 2019), and Oxford University, Language & Development Seminars (June, 2019).
Kathy Rastle
How Does the Brain Solve the Problem of Reading?
Talk given at the ResearchED conference (September, 2015).
Ana Ulicheva
Statistical Information Encoded in English Writing
Talk given at the Experimental Psychology Society in London, the Forum for Research in Language and Literacy in Easthampstead Park (May, 2017), the Morphological Processing Conference in Trieste (June, 2017), the Experimental Psychology Society, Reading, and European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Potsdam meetings (September, 2017).
Anastasia Ulicheva
Skilled Readers’ Sensitivity to Meaningful Regularities in English Writing
Talk given at at the Psychonomic International Meeting in Amsterdam (May, 2018), and as an invited speaker in the Symposium "The Morphology of Written English" at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, Germany (2018).
Kathy Rastle
From Specific Examples to General Knowledge in Language Learning
Talk given to teachers, special needs coordinators, and education experts at Royal Holloway (October, 2012).