MA, MRes, AFHEA
Research PG
- 51cg
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- Email Address
- t.alexander.24@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Psychology
Biography
Hi there! I'm currently a PhD student within the School. I research language comprehension - in particular, how individuals predict upcoming words, and what consequences these predictions have for comprehension. I am supervised by Dr Joost Rommers and Prof Patric Bach.
Before starting my PhD I studied both Philosophy and Psychology, also at Aberdeen. Within Philosophy I was interested in epistemology (the philosophy of knowledge), and the overlap of epistemology and moral philosophy (epistemic injustice).
Qualifications
- MA Philosophy and Psychology2023 - 51cg
First class honours
- MRes Psychology2024 - 51cg
Awarded with distinction
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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L1/L2/MSc Practical tutor
MRes PAL Leader (with Alžběta Manová)
Member of the Rommers Lab and the Action Prediction Lab
PhD representative for the ECR committee and SSLC meetings
School of Psychology EDI committee
Chair of APSC Committee (2025, 2026)
Co-Chair of the LGBTQ+ Staff and Postgraduate Network (with Brian Mathias)
- External Memberships
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Associate Fellow of Advance HE (AFHEA)
Experimental Psychology Society Postgraduate Member
Aberdeen City volunteer
Prizes and Awards
ESRC - SGSSS Studentship (1+3 award), awarded through the Student-Led Open Competition: 2023 - 2028
School of Psychology internal funding to support research internship: 2022
Discovering research award to support research internship: 2021
51cg Merit Scholarships: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
- Research
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Research Overview
My research is on predictive processing in language comprehension - that is, how language users predict upcoming words when comprehending language. In particular, I'm interested in how individuals update incorrect predictions when they are proven incorrect.
Research Areas
Research Specialisms
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive Psychology
- Quantitative Psychology
- Psychology
- Psychology of Memory and Learning
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is , published under the licence.
Collaborations
Pepita Alex (PhD Student, UoA)
Anita Malik (PhD Student, UoA)
Ke Zhao (MRes researcher, UoA)
Supervision
I am supervised by Dr Joost Rommers and Prof Patric Bach
Supervisors
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Most of my teaching is methodology-based:
PS1009/1509 - Introductory Psychology: Concepts and Theory
PS1011/1511 - Introductory Psychology: Methods and Applications (APA; reading and evaluating research; designing and conducting experiments; working in Excel; conducting t-tests by hand)
PS2017/2517 - Advanced Psychology: Concepts and Theory
PS2018/2518 - Advanced Psychology: Methods and Applications (logic of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing; data wrangling and transformations; t-tests; Chi-squared tests; correlation; regression; ANOVA; qualitative methods; SPSS/JASP)
PS5074/5075 - Basic Research Methods (With R) for Postgraduates (MRes) - grader
PS5529 - Methods and Analysis in Psychology (MSc) (t-tests; correlation; simple and multiple regression; ANOVA; survey and observational methods; qualitative methods; SPSS)
Non-course Teaching Responsibilities
MRes PAL
I have provided training sessions on coding in RStudio and MATLAB, EEG data collection, EEG preprocessing, Permutation testing, Mixed Linear Effect Modelling (including recommended best practices), and interim testing