Project lead
Prof Simon Liversedge
Simon is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Central Lancashire. He received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D. from the University of Dundee and has since worked at the Universities of Glasgow, Nottingham, Durham, Southampton and most recently at Central Lancashire. He has also worked internationally and spent significant periods of time in the USA (UMass and UCSD), China (Tianjin) and Finland (Turku). His research interests lie in the field of cognitive psychology, and in particular eye movements, reading and language processing, and human visual cognition. Throughout his research career he has used eye movement recording techniques to investigate a variety of aspects of human visual, linguistic and cognitive processing. Eye movement data provide an excellent on-line behavioural measure from which to infer moment to moment visual and cognitive processes that occur during the completion of a visually mediated task. He has an outstanding publication record with most of his work being published in high profile, international, peer reviewed journals (e.g., Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Cognition; Journal of Memory and Language, etc). He has an extended track record of securing research income from a variety of funders (e.g., ESRC; Leverhulme Trust; China Scholarship Council; UK Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory; etc). He has edited multiple volumes and journal special issues and has held numerous editorial roles. He was Editor in Chief of Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, the journal of the Experimental Psychology Society, from 2017-2021.