Beyersmann Reading Lab
Associate Professor Elisabeth (Lisi) Beyersmann and her team at the School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, investigate the cognitive underpinnings of language processing, particularly in understanding the processes involved in reading and reading development. Their research explores language processing in both children and adults, using behavioural, neuropsychological, and neurophysiological techniques like MEG, EEG, and eye-tracking.
Latest Publications
(2025).
Is the period really “pissed”? The effect of punctuation and message length on perceptions in digital communication.
Telematics and Informatics (in press).
(2025).
Literacy acquisition in Germanic languages.
In D. Meletis, M. Evertz-Rittich, & R. Treiman (Eds.), Handbook of Germanic writing systems. De Gruyter (in press).
(2024).
Cross-language orthographic neighbourhood density effects in Dutch-English and Spanish-English bilinguals.
Frontiers in Language Sciences, 3, Article 1482861.
(2024).
Two decades later: Letter transpositions within and across morpheme boundaries in L1 and L2 speakers.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (in press).
(2024).
Do reading times predict word learning? An eye-tracking study with novel words.
Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
(2024).
The effects of morphological instruction on literacy outcomes for children in English-speaking countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Educational Psychology Review, 36, Article 119.
(2024).
Cross-linguistic differences in morphological processing: Evidence from English and Italian.
Scientific Studies of Reading.
(2024).
Emojis and affective priming in visual word recognition.
Cognition and Emotion.
(2024).
A replication of morphological flanker effects in French.
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
(2024).
Phonological decoding and morpho-orthographic decomposition: Complementary routes during learning to read.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 242, Article 105877.
Latest Projects
IDEALAB
If you are interested in enrolling in our joint PhD program, the International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language and Brain (IDEALAB), please check out the IDEALAB website and contact Associate Professor Lisi Beyersmann directly should you have any questions.
Recent Lab Work
Associate Professor Lisi Beyersmann attended the IDEALAB winter school in Groningen, Netherlands, with Assistant Professor Srdjan Popov, Assistant Professor Sebastiaan Mathot, and Dr. Christos Salis (7 April 2024).
Dr Hasibe Kahraman and Associate Professor Lisi Beyersmann’s compound word research was featured on Macquarie University’s News Hub (2 April 2024).
