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Academic talks

  • Rastle, K. Understanding reading, understanding writing. Keynote for the annual meeting of the British Psychological Society (Cognitive Section), Sussex, UK, September, 2022.

  • Rastle, K. Learning to read. Talk given at the seminar series of the LUCID research centre, Manchester, UK, May 2023.

  • Korochkina, M., Marelli, M., Brysbaert, M., & Rastle K. A novel large-scale lexical database of books for children and young people. Talk given at a departmental meeting, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, 31 May 2023. [slides]

  • Rastle, K. Making a difference with Experimental Psychology: Lessons from the ‘Reading Wars’. President’s Lecture, Experimental Psychology Society, Swansea, UK, July, 2023. [YouTube]

  • Korochkina, M., Marelli, M., Brysbaert, M., & Rastle K. The Children and Young People’s Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX): How does book language change as children transition into and through adolescence? Talk given at the annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Swansea, UK, 12-14 July 2023. [slides]

  • Korochkina, M., Marelli, M., Brysbaert, M., & Rastle K. The Children and Young People’s Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX): A lexical database of books directed at children and young adults. Talk given at the 23rd meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Porto, Portugal, 6-9 September 2023. [slides]

  • Korochkina, M., Marelli, M., Brysbaert, M., & Rastle K. What do children read as they transition into and through adolescence? Insights from CYP-LEX, a new large-scale lexicon of books for children and young people. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Cognitive and Developmental sections of the British Psychological Society (BPS), Bristol, UK, 12-14 September 2023. [slides]

  • Rastle, K. Learning to read. Talk given at the seminar series of the BCBL, San Sebastian, Spain, September 2023.

  • Rastle, K. Understanding reading, understanding writing. Invited talk at the Rank Prize Symposium on Visual Processing of Words and Faces, Grasmere, UK, October, 2023.

  • Rastle, K. Why we need a global science of reading. Research seminar at the University of the UAE, Al Ain, November, 2023.

  • Korochkina, M., Marelli, M., Brysbaert, M., & Rastle K. Vocabulary and morphological complexity in books popular with British children. Talk given at a meeting of the Forum for Research in Literacy and Language (FRiLL), Reading, UK, 11 December 2023. [slides]

  • Korochkina, M., Marelli, M., Brysbaert, M., & Rastle K. What can children learn about English morphology through book reading? Talk given at the annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, York, UK, 3-5 July 2024. [slides]

  • Rastle, K., & Korochkina, M. How much can children learn about English morphology through book reading? Talk given at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, San Sebastian, July, 2024.

  • Korochkina, M., Marelli, M., Brysbaert, M., & Rastle K. The nature of morphemic regularities in children’s literature: What do British children learn about derivational morphology when they read? Talk given at the 31st annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Copenhagen, Denmark, 11-14 July 2024. [slides]

  • Korochkina, M. What do children learn from books, and how to talk to teachers about it. Talk given at a departmental meeting, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, 23 October 2024. [slides]

  • Rastle, K. What words do children encounter when they read for pleasure? Talk given at the seminar series of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, November 2024.

  • Rastle, K. How Experimental Psychology can help the world learn to read. Talk given at the seminar series of the University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, November 2024.

  • Korochkina, M., & Cooper, H. The graded nature of morphological information in text, and what it means for morpheme learning. Talk given at a meeting of the Forum for Research in Literacy and Language (FRiLL), Reading, UK, 12 December 2024. [slides]

  • Korochkina, M., Cooper, H., Brysbaert, M., & Rastle, K. What and how do we learn about morphemes through reading experience? Talk given at the annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Lancaster, UK, 2-4 April 2025. [slides]

  • Korochkina, M., Cooper, H., Brysbaert, M., & Rastle, K. Morpheme knowledge is shaped by information available through orthography. Talk to be given at the 24th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Sheffield, UK, 3-5 September 2025.

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