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Miss Emma McDonald  -  BSc Plymouth


Miss Emma McDonald
Position:PhD Student - writing up

Telephone:+44(0)29 208 76823
Extension:+44(0)29 208 74858

My research interests focus upon Dyslexia and Cognitive Psychology, especially upon short term memory and reasoning. As part of my PhD, supervised by Bill Macken and Dylan Jones, I am running a series of experiments looking at the effects of irrelevant sound, spatial serial recall and semantic similarities in dyslexic populations.

Selected Publications

Bacon, A.M., Handley, S.J. and McDonald, E.L. (2007). Reasoning and dyslexia: a spatial strategy may impede reasoning with visually rich information. British Journal of Psychology, 98(1), 79-92.