Nora Kennis
PhD Psychology
- Psychology
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: nora.kennis@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Psychology Building
- City
- 7 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JZ
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, Psychology)
Tutor in Second Language Acquisition (Year 3/4, Linguistics)
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 switchingConference details
Poster presentation at the 5th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children, Swansea, Wales (May 2024): Language choice and naming difficulty: Evidence from bilingual degraded picture naming. Kennis, N., Pickering, M. J., Branigan, H.
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.
Poster presentation at the School for Psychology, Philosophy and Language Sciences poster day, Edinburgh, UK (June 2023): Language choice and naming difficulty: Evidence from bilingual degraded picture naming. Kennis, N., Pickering, M. J., Branigan, H.
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.
Invited speaker
Talk at Psycholinguistics Coffee, Edinburgh, UK (April 2024): Language choice in bilingual interaction: Effects of alignment and cumulative priming.
Talk at Psycholinguistics Coffee, Edinburgh, UK (May 2023): Voluntary language switching: An account of difficulty.
Talk at the Psycholinguistics lab meeting, Edinburgh, UK (May 2023): Voluntary language switching: An account of difficulty.
Talk at the Language Function and Dysfunction lab meeting, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (January 2022): The electrophysiology of cued versus voluntary language switching.
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/].
Part of the organising committee of the 30th edition of Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh (to take place September 2024).