Miss Jen Todd Jones

Summary

Office 1.2, 5 Priory Road, Clifton, Bristol.

I work with Professor Jeffrey Bowers and Dr Nina Kazanina examining several elements of psycholinguistics including morphological decomposition, new word learning and consolidation of new words in monolinguals, and word processing in an integrated competitive model in bilinguals. These studies use various techniques including behavioural priming, eye-tracking, EEG and MRI testing.

More specifically, I am interested in whether morphological decomposition is an automatic process and how this is affected by the lexical and semantic nature of words. Additionally, how and when new words are learned to the extent that their effects in a competitive word model change. I will also address the question of how attention to objects in the visual world (via study of attention to pictures in the visual-world paradigm) is directed by phonological, visual, and semantic elements of word labels. Finally, the question of whether bilingual mental lexicons are unified or separate will be addressed with a task involving Welsh/English bilinguals in a picture-word interference paradigm, and French/English bilinguals in a semantic-incongruity task.

Conferences

2011

MR Summer School: University of Bristol, England, UK

Psycholinguistics in Flanders: Antwerp, Belgium

2012

International conference 'Bilingual and Multilingual Interaction', poster presentation: ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory & Practice, Bangor, North Wales, UK

MR Spring School: University of Bristol, England, UK

Experimental Psychology Society, poster presentation: University of Bristol, England, UK

2013

CNS 20th Anniversary summit, poster presentation: San Francisco, CA, USA

Language in developmental and acquired disorders: The Royal Society, London, England, UK

Conference organisation

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine British Chapter Postgraduate Symposium: University of Bristol, England, UK

Collaborations

2012/2013

fMRI study investigating preattentive attentional switching mechanisms and change detection in healthy younger adults, paired with ERP data. Hedge, C., Magee, K., Rojas-Frias, P., Stothart, G., & Todd Jones, J.

Findings in the visual world paradigm, authentic or artefactual? Todd Jones, J., & Hedge, C.

International Collaborations

2011

Collaborative project for the Honours MSc Programme "The wider implications of Neuroscience", focus on cognitive neuroenhancement: University of Bristol, England, UK and Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Holland

Awards

2012

British Psychological Society postgraduate study visits scheme. University of Bristol, Dr Nina Kazanina laboratory to Bangor University, Prof Guillaume Thierry laboratory.

Biography

I studied Psychology (BSc First Class Hons '09) at University of Wales Bangor, North Wales including a final-year dissertation examining the effects of cognitive load and multimedia learning in university students. I also studied Clinical Neuropsychology (MSc Distinction '10) at Bangor, including a research thesis examining the Visual Word Form Area theory in a stroke population.

Teaching

Teaching

2010/2011

Introduction to Psychological Experiments and Advanced statistics and Psychological Experiments

2011/2012

Teaching for Learning in Higher Education (TLHE) qualification

Introduction to Psychological Experiments

2012/2013

Advanced statistics and Psychological Experiments

Outreach

2011

STEM Ambassador training: Graphic Science Bristol, Bristol

2012

Discovery Science Fair: Broadmead, Bristol

Brain Awareness Week: @Bristol, Bristol

Neuroscience workshop: Ashton Gate Primary School, Bristol

Neuroscience and 'smart drugs' workshop: Writhlington School, Radstock

2013

Brain Awareness Week: @Bristol, Bristol

I'm a Scientist, get me out of here!

Keywords

• Psycholinguistics Cognition Neuroscience

Memberships

Organisations

School of Experimental Psychology

Research groups

• Language Group

Links

• Research Gate account
•   My tuition profile
• Linked in account
• Current study - Bristol 2012
• CRIC Bristol