Nora Kennis

PhD Psychology

  • Psychology
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Psychology Building

City
7 George Square, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9JZ

Biography

Qualifications

MSc Cognitive Neuroscience | Radboud University - Nijmegen, The Netherlands 

BA Linguistics | Radboud University - Nijmegen, The Netherlands 

Undergraduate teaching

Tutor in Psychology 2 (Year 2) 

Tutor in Psychology of Conversation (Year 3)

Tutor in Critical Analysis (Year 3) 

Postgraduate teaching

MSc dissertation supervision 

Sabila Hantoni - MSc Psycholinguistics 

Research summary

My research interests include language control in multilingual conversation as well as the interaction of language and other general cognitive functions in the multilingual brain. My PhD work focuses on the factors affecting voluntary language switching in a variety of contexts.

Current research interests

Multilingualism, language production, interaction, language control and language switching

Conference details

Poster presentation at the 29th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP 2023), Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain (August 2023): Language choice and naming difficulty: Evidence from bilingual degraded picture naming. Kennis, N., Pickering, M. J., Branigan, H. 

Talk at Psycholinguistics Coffee, Edinburgh, UK (May 2023): Voluntary language switching: An account of difficulty. 

Poster presentation at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children, Tromsø, Norway (August 2022): The electrophysiology of voluntary and cued language switching: Evidence from event related potentials and neuronal oscillations. Kennis, N., Zheng, X., de Bruin, A., & Piai, V.

Talk at the International Max Planck Research School for the Language Sciences Conference, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (June 2022): The electrophysiology of voluntary and cued language switching: Evidence from event related potentials and neuronal oscillations. Kennis, N., Zheng, X., de Bruin, A., & Piai, V.

Organiser

Organiser and moderator of Psycholinguistics Coffee, an informal meeting to discuss Psycholinguistic research, presented by internal or external postgraduate students and early career researchers. Talks include published research, work in progress, and practice runs for conference presentations. [https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/psycholingcoffee/]

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