
Dr Polly Barr
PhD, MSc, Bsc
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School of Psychology and Neuroscience
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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
13/05/2026Correcting automatically generated closed captions for online learning materials does not improve student learning outcomes (although students believe it does)
British Journal of Educational Psychology
Developing inclusive and reflective practices in research methods and projects teaching: Case studies
Psychology Teaching Review
Teaching Irregular Words: A Comparison of Mispronunciation Correction and Heart-Word Methods
Scientific Studies of Reading
An online multidomain lifestyle intervention to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk older adults: a randomized controlled trial
Nature Medicine
Two bee oar knot too be: the effects of orthography and bilingualism on spoken homophone production
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience


