
Dr Polly Barr
PhD, MSc, Bsc
Current positions
Lecturer
School of Psychological Science
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Research interests
My research interests stem from language production. I'm interested in the representation of monolingual and bilingual language production and cognitive control associated with and extended beyond language. I investigate this in a variety of ways; cognitive neuropsychology, intervention studies with acquired language deficits, developmental disorders, Aging populations, psycholinguistics, mouse tracking and EEG. I am also interested in how bilingualism affects the onset and decline of dementia.
Publications
Recent publications
01/02/2025An online multidomain lifestyle intervention to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk older adults
Nature Medicine
Two bee oar knot too be
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
Predicting Dementia Risk Using Paralinguistic and Memory Test Features with Machine Learning Models
2019 IEEE Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies, (HI-POCT)
Design and Development of the Brain Training System for the Digital “Maintain Your Brain” Dementia Prevention Trial (Preprint)
Ageing with bilingualism: benefits and challenges
Speech, Language and Hearing