Dr Polly Barr
PhD, MSc, Bsc
Current positions
Senior 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
13/04/2026Developing inclusive and reflective practices in research methods and projects teaching
Psychology Teaching Review
An 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)
